A hilarious and horrifying journey into the dark heart of the ‟New Normal Reich.” C. J.
Hopkins’s latest volume of Consent Factory Essays chronicles his Kafkaesque prosecution in
Germany the broader crackdown on dissent throughout the West and other unsettling features of
the ‟New Normal”—the new pathologized form of totalitarianism that was rolled out during ‟the
Covid Pandemic ” which is radically transforming societies around the world. Charged by the
German authorities with ‟disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda” for tweeting the cover art of his
bestselling book The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays Vol. III
(2020–2021) Hopkins’s absurdist adventures in the German legal system—where he was pronounced
guilty without a trial then acquitted and then ‟unacquitted”—make for harrowing and
uproariously humorous reading. Prosecuted in criminal court his book banned by Amazon his
tweets censored by Twitter reported to Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office and the
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz its domestic intelligence agency his battle to defend his
right to freedom of speech and artistic expression has become an international cause célèbre
receiving major media coverage in the USA UK Australia and Switzerland as well as Germany.
Spanning the years 2022–2024 the essays in this volume also cover the crackdown on so-called
‟disinformation ” ‟hate-speech ” and other forms of wrongthink the wars in the Middle East and
Ukraine the culture wars the rise of the ‟Musk Cult ” the return of Trump and the rest of
the aftermath of the ‟Covid Pandemic.”
