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“The white man is the Jew of liberal fascism.”
By Ned | December 20, 2007
Nobody’s ever really properly demonstrated to me the importance of Jonah Goldberg’s opinion to the wider electorate, so I guess unless you’re either a politics nerd like me and most of the people on my blogroll or a pretentious conservative self-styled pseudo-intellectual (which is really just one of the more detestable subgroups of your run-of-the-mill politics nerd), there’s really no reason for you to care who this guy is. And that’s why I haven’t made much mention of him here.
Except that his forthcoming book, the unironically titled Liberal Fascism, is worth mention just for sheer entertainment value alone. If what we’ve seen from quotes and scans of advance copies floating around the blogosphere (look at the example in the title) are any indication, then writing this book and then allowing it to be published is somewhere on the spectrum of humiliation in between pissing your pants while receiving your high school diploma and being featured in an episode of To Catch a Predator.
is worth mention just for sheer entertainment value alone. If what we’ve seen from quotes and scans of advance copies floating around the blogosphere (look at the example in the title) are any indication, then writing this book and then allowing it to be published is somewhere on the spectrum of humiliation in between pissing your pants while receiving your high school diploma and being featured in an episode of To Catch a Predator.There’s an important lesson to be learned from all of this: the modern conservative movement is so impoverished of genuine intellect that one of their most prominent intellectual heavyweights is the guy who accused liberals of using fascism like a cudgel without even understanding what it means and then went on to write an entire book about how liberals are fascists because Hitler was a vegetarian who liked exercise too.
Ezra Klein likes to poke fun at Goldberg’s oblivious insistence that his book is “a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care,” but to be fair, Goldberg has a point. His book probably does represent the definitive laying out of that argument, but considering how obviously ridiculous and stupid said argument is, that’s an extremely low bar to clear.
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