“we are one foot away from 1984.” After a moment, though, he offers a sizable qualifier: “I never actually read the book, so I don’t know all the themes of the book."

What a dumb fuck. If you read you'll see that murrica stepped over it in the mid 70, and now is way beyond. At least for party it was all about power, not about raping children, mass murdering people and burning down villages on the other end of the globe or worshiping satan.