Goldstein

I thought that the part in chapter 9 where the party switches from fighting Eurasia to fighting Oceana and people blame the confusion on Emmanual Goldstein's agents was relevant to modern politics. On January 6th, fringe right wing talking heads were quick to call out Antifa for staging the capitol riots to make them look bad. Blaming an ill defined enemy for all your groups problems is a common tactic in politics. During WW2 Hitler blamed the Jews living in Germany and FDR blamed the Japanese living in the US. In the 50s it was the communists. Today right wingers like to blame Antifa and the deep state. I think this kind of political tribalism is what Orwell is referring to with the agents of Emmanual Goldstein. What other political scapegoats do you see today or remember from history.