Oh boy oh boy... Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh chants on floor of Legislature for...

By Andrea Widburg

The conservative media has been talking about Nebraska state senator Machaela Cavanaugh’s hysterical way of showing her solidarity with the “transgender” activists outside the Nebraska statehouse. Her version of solidarity was to say the same three sentences repeatedly, working herself from a sweet smile to a fit of frenzied anger. The video is worth watching because it highlights the madness of white, college-educated, leftist women. It’s also a pure display of Orwell’s two minutes of hate.

I’ll start with Orwell. As you may remember from your high school or college years, in 1984, Orwell describes how Winston Smith’s workplace has a daily “Two Minutes Hate,” during which employees gather to vent their anger at Emmanuel Goldstein, “the Enemy of the People.” Orwell describes how the workers begin with vague dislike for Goldstein, before lashing themselves in a fury:

There were hisses here and there among the audience.

Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room.

In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen.

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.

Mindless, lunatic rage...

Machaela Cavanaugh is a credentialed woman. According to her webpage, she “obtained her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.”