re: #191 Be Zorch, Daddio

I wonder why people use the term “classical liberalism”, is European social liberalism too soft or something?

Classical liberalism is actually closer to today’s Tea Party than contemporary Liberals in terms of political beliefs.

I don’t know who here has read/suffered through Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism but in that book he goes on at GREAT length about the distinct differences between modern Liberalism and “classical liberalism”. I put that in quote as I’m not sure Goldberg uses the correct facts about classical liberalism in his book. It could well be he presents a view of it designed to match the aim of the book which is, obviously, to vilify modern Liberals.

This is same book by the way, that dedicates a whole chapter to the argument that Hitler was, in fact, a raging Left winger.