In the west, the self anointed custodians of public discourse have become so successful in whipping into line any public figure who dares stray outside their ow

In the west, the self anointed custodians of public discourse have become so successful in whipping into line any public figure who dares stray outside their own boundaries of acceptable thought, vastly adrift though it is from most ordinary decent folk's, that the only people who can rise to power outside it are those so far beyond its reach as to be invulnerable to their hysterical protestations, and unpalatable as he might be the people will be willing to overlook his faults.