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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Apr 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Jonah Goldberg

      Fascism is not conservative, in either the classical liberal or legitimist sense. It is statist, collectivist, obsessed with youth, disdainful of tradition, contemptuous of law & institutions, & brooks no competition for man's loyalty to the State. It is, however, "right-wing."https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1112155644839243776 …

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      Me: Conservatism/classical liberalism in the Anglo-American tradition = limited government, sovereignty of the individual, moral and religious traditionalism, and free market economics. Therefore fascism is not “right wing.” Left wing obsessive: HOW DARE YOU, YOU IDIOT!?
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Apr 2019

      2. Bear in mind that modern American conservatism - grounded in classical liberalism - is distinct from legitimist throne-and-altar European conservatism, though both share some important commonalities; fascism rejects both variants & sees them as its first enemy.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Apr 2019

      3. "Were the Nazis socialists?" arguments are historically interesting (there were *reasons* why they put the word socialist in the name of the party, it wasn't just a typo, & they weren't the last people to sell socialism & deliver tyranny), but it's actually not the key divide.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Apr 2019

      4. The more crucial point is that conservatism's view of individuals, communities, state power, laws, traditions, & institutions places it on one side of a divide w/progressivism, socialism, fascism & Communism on the other.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Apr 2019

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          5. Bingo. No amount of "actually, the Nazis were not my kind of socialist" can translate into "the Nazis were really into small government." https://twitter.com/_Drew_McCoy_/status/1112729581222531072 …

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Apr 2019

          6. Fascism in any of its forms is both collectivist & corporatist: like socialism & progressivism, it sees business & economic activity as something to be controlled top-down by the state & directed to the ends the state sees as good.

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Apr 2019

          7. True, Nazi Germany gave more leeway to big business that produced private profit than did the USSR. This is also why, unlike Stalin, it was able to arm its own military & feed its own people w/o begging off its allies. Both systems, however, rested on forced labor & worse.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 1 Apr 2019

          8. Which brings us to the deeper problem of progressives arguing that fascists were not really socialists: the Communists indisputably were, they caused even more death & misery over more space & time, & some of their regimes are still in business. Collectivism is ghastly.

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        1. John‏ @JohnHeinz33 1 Apr 2019
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          And yet, conservatism gave us Trump. Pretty hard to argue conservatism sits on the opposite side of the divide with that reality staring us in the face. Consistent with conservative brand though-conservatives imagine they're all the good guys and nothing bad is ever their fault.

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