super-oppressive

Updated: June 9, 2025

In the long run, nearly all of them must succeed, for the mob is eternally virtuous, and the only thing necessary to get it in favor of some new and super-oppressive law is to convince it that that law will be distasteful to the minority that it envies and hates.

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken - Damn!: A Book of Calumny