The doppelganger figure embodies how the Mirror World feeds on progressive failures and silences.

Evidence

All of this helps me to understand my doppelganger—but not in a way I find at all reassuring. Because it means she represents a larger and more dangerous form of mirroring—a mimicking of beliefs and concerns that feeds off progressive failures and silences. And watching Bannon’s glee in absorbing Wolf’s vaccine passport fantasies into the terrorizing and galvanizing story he tells his listeners daily, I started to wonder what other unaddressed fears and outrages were being exploited in her new home—the place I have come to call the Mirror World. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 289

Categorization

• DEFINE: First explicit statement that the Mirror World’s power derives from metabolizing leftist abandonment — the thesis-carrying sentence for the whole book.
• QUESTION: The device announces itself as ‘larger and more dangerous form of mirroring’ — worth tracking whether the book proves this beyond the vaccine-passport case or lets it stand as assertion.