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Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg5/24/2023 Up until the early 1900s in the United States it was widely believed that a healthy economy and, indeed, democracy itself relied on the “Invisible Hand” of the “Free Market” which stroked the members of the benevolent elites so that wealth trickled down the social ladder to their social inferiors. We do live in an ‘unconscious civilization’ of fascism, albeit of a friendly sort infinitely more benign that that of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, or FDRs America” (p. I will explore the roots of the idea of “liberal fascism” as emerging from right-wing ideologues at very specific historic moments.Īccording to Goldberg, “Today we still live under the fundamentally fascistic economic system established by Wilson and FDR. Other scholars in this series have explained the weakness of Goldberg’s analysis of the nature of fascism. The specific looming threat, according to Goldberg and the tea-partiers, is that liberals and their closet commie/fascist friends are pushing America onto a slippery slope toward tyranny that begins with government social planning. In a nutshell, this mirrors the basic theme in Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. The Tea Party Patriots and Town Hall Criers are alerting us to the coming totalitarian apocalypse provoked by liberal misfeasance, nonfeasance, malfeasance, and just plain treason.
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