Feminist author Naomi Wolf — who served as a political adviser to both former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore — is concerned the U.S. is turning into a collection of “totalitarian states before everyone’s eyes.”
Speaking Monday night with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, Wolf said the country is “moving into a coup situation, a police state situation,” arguing federal, state, and local officials are continually implementing “unprecedented” emergency powers under the “guise of a real medical pandemic.”
“That’s not a partisan thing,” she said. “That transcends everything that you and I might disagree or agree on. That should bring together left and right to protect our Constitution.”
The unending lockdowns and draconian restrictions in cities around the U.S. have caused thousands of business owners to permanently close their doors, deprived children of education while keeping them in isolation, forced Americans to forgo major life moments like graduations, weddings, and even funerals, and kept people from finding community or coming together to practice their religious liberties.
Each of these freedoms have been stripped away in the name of public safety.
“Nowhere in the Constitution does it say all this can be suspended if there’s a bad disease,” Wolf told Carlson. “We have lived through typhus, cholera, smallpox, HIV, tuberculosis, polio, the Spanish flu — we’ve lived through an attack on our soil — never has there been months and months and months of emergency powers when we weren’t actually fighting a war.”
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She went on to say, “Lockdowns have never been done before in free societies and, really, we are turning into a version of totalitarian states before everyone’s eyes. I really hope we wake up quickly, because history shows that it’s a small window in which people can fight back before it’s too dangerous to fight back.”
Wolf said the actions taken by elected officials have “crushed businesses,”“kept us from gathering in free assembly to worship, as the First Amendment provides,” are “invading our bodies … which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment,” and are “restricting movement” by implementing fines and legal penalties against Americans for coming together physically.
The left-leaning author argued that, based on her study of history, “would-be tyrants” always follow the same 10 steps “when they want to close down a democracy.”
She went on to suggest the U.S. is “absolutely moving into what I call step 10,” which is the “suspension of the rule of law — that’s when you start to be a police state, and we’re here: there’s no way around it.”
Wolf, who famously admitted last November she regrets having voted for President Joe Biden, noted she’s spoken to a lot of people on both sides of the aisle who are equally concerned about government overreach and the restriction of our constitutionally protected freedoms.
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“Autocratic tyrants at the state and now the national level are creating a kind of merger or corporate power and government power that’s really characteristic of Italian fascism in the ’20s and they’re using that to engage in emergency orders that simply strip us of our rights,” she said. “So people are definitely horrified and noticing. I think people are shocked and divided.”
While Wolf has been anticipating this political shift for a long time, she noted it seemed to have bubble to the surface very quickly over the last year, which has sent a lot of Americans, she said, into a kind of “culture shock.”
Carlson, for his part, said he is starting to believe Americans are being intentionally divided “so we don’t have conversations like this.”