re: #162 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, some of the biggest supporters of Mussolini and Hitler in the interwar period were conservatives. They saw Fascism as a bulwark against Communism and the USSR.

Exactly and I’ll concede that a lot of left wingers saw communism and the USSR as bulwarks the other way. But there’s no question that western conservatism lends itself to accepting totalitarianism if it’s done in the name of opposition to socialism and increasingly liberalism.