In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Ed Driscoll, one of the intellectual welterweights at Instapundit, links to a piece at American Greatness that compares Sen Fetterman to, of all people, the Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov : Sakharov openly criticized the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, prompting the Brezhnev regime to take drastic action against him. . . . He wasn’t just exiled or “banished.” And he was never officially “arrested.” Rather, he was removed from the proximity to power for what the Brezhnev regime called “his own good.” . . . Sakharov had been diagnosed in absentia with “sluggish schizophrenia,” a condition identified and articulated (i.e. “made up”) by the founding father of Soviet psychiatry, Andrei Snezhnevsky. Like countless others in the Soviet Union, Sakharov ran afoul of the regime, and, as a result, was labeled “mentally unfit” by that regime. . . . The Soviet Union was a monstrous place that did monstrous things to nonconformists and called it “concern” for their me...