Article note: Academia. ML bullshit might be the bullshitiest, but from where I'm sitting, the goodheart-artifact behavior is the rule, not the exception.
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.