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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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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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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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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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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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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