Joe Klein's review of Pat Buchanan's new book is a good example of how centrist liberalism can't deal with fascismhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/books/review/nixons-white-house-wars-patrick-j-buchanan.html?hpw&rref=books&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well …
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Buchanan has a cluster of largely coherent ideas: white nationalism + tribal Catholicism + extreme gender conservatism.
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Some of Buchanan's ideas are theoretically in conflict. His Catholicism should clash with his racism, but in practice doesn't.
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It's both, Jeet.
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The centrist position is one where Francis Fukuyama was correct, history has ended, and ideology went with it Liberal Capitalism just is now
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Problem with "centrists" is that they search for any excuse to paint extreme rightwingers as moderate, and moderate leftwingers as extreme
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And they're generally utterly blind to how their ideas are being shaped by the Overton window, unable to justify beliefs
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