Xi Van Fleet Says America Is Repeating A Dangerous Pattern | From #482 (opens in new tab)

Xi Van Fleet grew up during Mao’s Cultural Revolution in Communist China\. Then she came to America in 1986, convinced she had escaped collectivism forever\. Now, she says she sees some very familiar patterns unfolding right here in the United States\. In this clip, Xi explains why phrases like “the greater good,” conformity, language policing, mandates, and the “warm embrace of collectivism” sound a lot less harmless to someone who’s actually lived through the real thing\. We talk about Mao,...