“The key to resilience in the face of persecution is the willingness to suffer,” says Rod Dreher, “not just to bear it stoically, but to find a way to transform it and purify it into something good.” In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek speaks about soft totalitarianism, “wokeness,” and ways to resist both with Rod Dreher, author of “Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents.” Mr. Jekielek: I’ve been reading “Live Not by Lies.” I think there are a lot of people who would wonder what you’re talking about. Mr. Dreher: Well, it sounds crazy to Americans to think our liberal democracies could be turning totalitarian. But whenever I travel to conferences, if I meet someone who has immigrated to America from a communist country, I ask them, “Do the things you’re seeing today, such as cancel culture and wokeness, remind you of what …