The question is where he's blogging from, which is probably Texas since he's a professor at UT Austin. The beauty of his blogpost is that depending on your perspective you can choose to read as pertaining to Texas (probably going to ban most insurance coverage for abortion) or "gender stuff" (Google manifesto fallout)

But in either case, the comparison to the Soviet Union is so ridiculous as to undermine any ability to use it a resonable springboard for discussion.