![]() ![]() But Franco meets the standard-usage definition more than adequately. Bush, Goldberg cites as evidence of fascist influence not the de facto suspension of habeas corpus and refusal to follow the Geneva Conventions, which go unmentioned, but rather Bush’s extension of Medicare to cover prescription drugs.Ĥ.) “There’s ample evidence wasn’t even a fascist, but simply a strongman.” Technically, no one discussed in Goldberg’s book except Mussolini is an authentic Fascist. In a token criticism of President George W. Granted, he gives a wide berth to the common defense. Eventually, Goldberg backs himself into asserting, in effect, that any government that does more than prevent abortions and provide for the common defense is inherently fascist. Modern liberalism, he argues, is linked to Nazism because both contain a cult of the organic (Hitler was a vegetarian) and both embrace sexual freedom (Himmler ordered his men “to father as many children as possible without marrying” in order to achieve the Aryan ideal). He was the sort of president liberal fascism could only produce during unexciting times.īy this point, Goldberg’s reasoning has progressed from unconvincing to incoherent. To say that he was a fascist is to credit him with more ideology and principle than justified. ![]() ![]() … But I think if we are going to call him a fascist, it must be in the sense that he was a sponge for the ideas and emotions of liberalism. Was Bill Clinton a fascist president? Well, he certainly believed in the primacy of emotion and the supremacy of his own intellect. ![]()
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