Fascism in America

[arisbe]

The Left has been denouncing American Fascism, indeed, denouncing America as Fascist, for so many years that we are deaf to the din of it. Lately, though, the warnings of an emerging Fascist mentality have been repeated from what some describe as the fringes of the Right, both the traditionalist (paleoconservative) and individualist (libertarian) wings. The American Conservative is seen as more moderate and mainstream, sceptical of big government, critical of the war, but willing to give both Republicans and Democrats the benefit of the doubt when they seem honest. It is therefore a milestone that even they are now insisting that we ought to take the threat very seriously indeed. Scott McConnell, a student of Fritz Stern, Columbia's great historian of the European Right, makes a sobering case, with the essential qualifications, in Hunger for Dictatorship: War to export democracy may wreck our own.

It is, I think, essential reading.

Comments

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

If only Mr. Bush would take some real interest in the criminals of 9/11 rather than his foolish scheme of "democratizing" Iraq, Iran, Syria, the whole Middle East in fact -- except for one country.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

President Bush is taking a real interest in Al Qaeda. He's also wise enough to know that the United States has foolishly looked the other way at growing threats to our nation in the name of "globalism" and "multiculturalism".

And the word has gotten out: if you are a threat to the United States, your days are numbered.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

I hope it's not too late. In our eagerness to go after Saddam we failed to close the trap on Osama. Now his people are raising hell in Iraq.