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

Re: Can you read?

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Had you continued on to the next line of my post, you would have found the answer.

Oh, I did. I found nothing to convince me that you meant anything other than "the Jews".

I also addressed the line you claim I ignored:

srael is quite capable of taking care of Iraq as well, but has not done so at the request of the United States. They do not need us to fight their wars. They've proven they can handle anything any Arab nation sends against them.

So, obviously, I've proven that I can read.

Your turn!

You claim that we are fighting Israel's wars, but have yet to demonstrate that.

I'll wait....