Durbin Has Lived 80 Years And Never Heard The Word ‘Wrongthink’

Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin claimed in a Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that in 80 years he has not once heard the term ‘wrongthink,’ a concept familiar to readers of George Orwell and a phrase increasingly common among conservatives who oppose the government’s censorship of free speech.

Durbin’s comments were obviously in reference to an article written by Benjamin Weingarten in The Federalist earlier this year. Weingarten, a Federalist senior contributor, testified before the committee regarding government censorship on Tuesday.

“Anyone who wants to characterize that event of Jan. 6 as ‘the riot used to launch the war on wrongthink.’ What in the hell is ‘wrongthink?’” Durbin said. “I can’t keep up with all these words that are coming at us as brand new terms.”