I never dreamt in a million years when I read “1984” in grade school that the day would dawn when knowledge of it would be key to explaining the politics of the early 21st Century. If I had, maybe I would have taken better notes. Read this description of double think and then listen to the clip of minority leader McCarthy below and see if one does not describe to a tee the other. “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing...