tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5420886806115679313.post5915231747018613463..comments2023-11-15T19:12:11.313-06:00Comments on Push the Pull Door: Better And Better: Book memeDonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15824445546892392815noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5420886806115679313.post-81160278668823868122008-05-01T14:13:00.000-05:002008-05-01T14:13:00.000-05:00Don,It’s a little outside my blog space but I didn...Don,<BR/>It’s a little outside my blog space but I didn’t want to ignore you so I’ll give you a comment instead. <BR/><BR/>I’m not 100% sure I’m doing this right, but I think my three sentences are:<BR/><BR/><I>And it was hardly wasted on the liberal intellectuals swirling around the Roosevelt administration that the enormously popular Benito Mussolini had used the same methods to whip the unruly Italians into shape. After all, the New Republic, - the intellectual home of the new deal – had covered the goings on in Italy with fascination and, often, admiration. Indeed, the new deal was conceived at the climax of a worldwide fascist moment, a moment when socialists in many countries were becoming nationalists, and nationalists could embrace nothing but socialism. </I><BR/><BR/><BR/>The nearest book was Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”, and the selection from page 123 certainly gets right to the heart of the matter… that the New Deal, the foster parent of the American left of today, was in fact an overtly fascist enterprise. He takes a whole book to document how that fascist tendency has been passed directly to the nanny state liberals of today. <BR/><BR/>Good Reading.<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/>Tom<BR/>RadioFreeNJTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17621581723440880281noreply@blogger.com