They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism.Ĭontrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”).
Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. But who are the real fascists in our midst? Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”-such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents.
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