'Many Americans began to feel what we, in other parts of the world, had felt when we read Nineteen Eighty-Four for the first time—that it was not some farfetched dystopia set in a remote place and time. It was already here. It was already happening.'

https://lithub.com/75-years-of-1984-why-george-orwells-classic-remains-more-relevant-than-ever/