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Liberal fascism by jonah goldberg5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() While Goldberg doesn’t spare those on the right when their worldview or actions stray into fascist territory, and near the end of the book admits that “we are all fascists now” (a provocative statement that may not make much sense unless you read through to that point), his explicit aim is to expose the historical roots of fascism on the left, and show how echoes of those roots remain with us in the politics and methods of liberal leaders in the present and recent past. The author’s sympathies are clearly with the right wing of American politics, and he candidly admits as much. This is not to say there’s nothing partisan about Liberal Fascism. ![]() This is not the literary clickbait it might appear to be at first glance, but actually a well-researched work that contains a lot of interesting information and provides an insightful and I think for the most part accurate synthesis of that information. If an Internet troll who decided to take his habit of posting annoying memes on social media sites were to take his efforts to the next level by writing and publishing a book, it might well look something like this!īut the old saying about not judging a book by its cover applies here, as I discovered when curiosity led me to begin reading it. It’s an inflammatory title, not helped by the lurid red book jacket highlighting a bright yellow smiley face with a Hitler mustache drawn on it. The full title of this book is Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. ![]()
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