This reminds me of Orwell’s criticisms of left intellectuals, and how they’re far removed from the style of the common folk. I appreciate that one’s ideological opponent (for this writer, the far-right) is always conniving and devious, but maybe some of those far-right thinkers are Orwellian in a different sense. It’s a common criticism that some people only read Orwell up to 1984. Essentially, what Orwell was saying was that if the left is intellectually honest, then it would realize the fascist and authoritarian tendencies that it possesses itself.