I'd offer this quote of a long sentence as Mr. Francis's tl;dr of his term:
"What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny—the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through “sensitivity training” and multiculturalist curricula, “hate crime” laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny."
I've always thought anarcho-tyranny was a dumb neologism made up by people who hadn't read "The Origins of Totalitariansm," or anything else with historical accuracy by Arendt, even her "ideology and terror" essay. The thing its professors are still sounding out already has a canonical playbook.
