Comedian Tim Dillon had some amusing, less partisan takes on this. His style is often an ironic parody of the self-serious. Yet another case of a comedian being

Comedian Tim Dillon had some amusing, less partisan takes on this. His style is often an ironic parody of the self-serious. Yet another case of a comedian being more reasonable than the journalist classes. The author loses the high-ground where he frames it as a kind of irrational hysteria. It isn't that the satanic panic wasn't irrational, but that the partisan media's framing of their opponents is generally irrational. I kind of checked out where he invoked national socialism. Introspective analysis would go much further here. A movement that constantly berates the out-group, while celebrating themselves and the inclusive and tolerant ones - The hypocrisy is the least of the problems. The impotence is more off-putting. There's very little these partisan journos can do to change their opponents, who have tuned them out completely. There's little or nothing they can do to reform their own positions or methods while they claim the mantle of righteousness. What's left is doubling down on even more partisan zealotry. It doesn't inform us. It divides us.