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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.

Jonah Goldberg’s book detailing the secret (or better, ‘ignored’) history of the American Left, “Liberal Fascism” is a facinating read.

Goldberg’s analysis puts into context the effort by the Obama campaign to intimidate people like John McCain and George Voinovich into silence over the First Amendment right to a vote undiminished by fraudulent and inelibile voting.

As Heritage’s Hans von Spakovsky notes:

The Obama campaign’s Stalinist-style demand that a special prosecutor at the Department of Justice criminally prosecute any candidates, party officials or congressmen who discussed their concerns over voter fraud is an outrageous attempt to use the power of the federal government to intimidate and persecute political opponents. It is almost as if Senator Obama wants to reinstitute the Alien and Sedition Acts and it brings into sharp focus the issue of whether he understands the protections of the First Amendment and the importance of fair and secure elections.