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Mike Maurer uses below the “F” word – fascism – in describing comments of the incoming superintendent of public education, Deborah Delisle.

For some of you this may come as a shocking and/or irrelevant epithet.  How could such outrageously liberal and statist views be described in far-right terms, you might ask.

I would have thought so as well, except for having recently attended a lecture  by Jonah Goldberg and reviewing a new book by him.

In his “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning” Goldberg shows how the ideology of fascism and the American Left have so much more in common than conventional wisdom or the usual sources on US history from 1910 through 1941 would lead us to believe.

Spend some time with “Liberal Fascism”, and take another look at incidental accounts of the era (see here, for example, on how Woodrow Wilson would have hid the fact of 1918-1919 Influenza epidemic from the American people, if not for the overflowing morgues).

After that, I think you’ll agree that the F word applies to Ms. Delisle’s way of thinking after all.

Tags: Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism, Supt. Delisle

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