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KGxvi1/02/2019 2:43:20 pm PST

re: #40 Scottish Dragon

Rod Dreher has gone full fucking Falangist.

America’s favorite reactionary moral intellectual watched a documentary series about the Spanish Civil War and on that rock solid basis reached this conclusion:

The Nationalists were basically fascists with an extra helping of Catholic identitarianism. Franco and the Falangists got financial aid from Mussolini and state of the art military aid from Hitler, which proved decisive. Franco sent volunteers to fight with the German army in Russia.

The other side was an unwieldy hodgepodge of Soviet backed communists, monarchists, anarchists and just anybody else who hated Nazi co-travelers.

Rod just sided with the Nazi pals. This is a guy who gets book reviews and op-eds in the NYT.

The Spanish Civil War was sort of like the Syrian Civil War - there weren’t really any “good guys”. You effectively had communists fighting fascists. So saying the “right team won” is like saying the right team won when the Yankees play the Red Sox.