re: #128 Dark_Falcon

Speaking of Jonah Goldberg, I’d like to put this question to the group: Is the following article an honest examination, or a subtle foray into the territory of Liberal Fascism:

When Fasces Aren’t Fascist
The strange history of America’s federal buildings
By Eugene Kontorovich

A selected excerpt:

I ask this because Goldberg devoted the first chapter of Liberal Fascism to an examination of what he felt was the relationship between American liberals and Mussolini. So I put the question to the group and ask for replies.

Jonah is ignoring that many on the American right looked fondly at Mussolini too. What Jonah and many conservatives I think fail to grasp about fascism is that it does differ from traditional European conservatism but it still a right wing ideology. Furthermore, Mussolini alienated what support he may have had on the American left by invading Ethiopia and supporting Franco in the Spanish Civil War. And frankly if fascism was such a leftist regime, then Jonah should try to explain to us why so many of his fellow conservatives at the time were sympathetic to it.