… is from page 78 of David Mamet’s 2022 book, Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch:
Leftist identity groups now merge, now compete for power, united, finally, in a codependent submission to a lie. That is, that America is an evil land, but even the foolish Left wants to earn a living, and drive a car, and so lives in state-sponsored denial. This enervating state can be sustained only if there is no possibility of individual apostasy, which is to say of freedom.