Guest Post by Mark Crispin Miller
It surely isn’t just the book’s front cover, with its (near-imperceptible) small swastika that got him into trouble there, but the author’s blistering critique of the “new normal”—i.e., COVID heresy
As many of you know, C.J. Hopkins, an American playwright living in Berlin, has been among the fiercest (and funniest) critics of the new bio-fascist order, focusing primarily on its sway in Germany (since that’s where he lives), but duly noting its unprecedented global reach. He posts his essays here on Substack, and has just published a collection of such writings, The Rise of the New Normal Reich.
To make the world aware of this new book (which is self-published), Hopkins recently tweeted an image of its front cover, which, like the title, harks back boldly to William L. Shirer’s 1960 classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, using the same Nazi tricoleur (black/white/red), and, roughly, the same design; except that, whereas Rise and Fall features, on its cover’s lower half, a thick black swastika stamped on a white disc (as on the Third Reich’s flags and banners), Hopkins’ cover features, on its lower half, a white surgical mask—shadowed, in the middle, with a small gray swastika (so faint that you can barely make it out) on a white disc.
