Progressives desire to produce a utopian nation and global state with centralized power. Of course liberals are horrified by the Holocaust, and fascism in America will not look like Hitler’s regime, but there are important points of philosophical and political agreement between them (although it must be stressed that nobody on the left in America supports Hitler’s atrocities). Liberals desire to create a state that benevolently guides every aspect of life for the greater good of society, where they alone know what is best and have power to enforce their ideology. The US administrations of Wilson and FDR were fascist through and through.

Progressives had agreed with fascist policies leading up WW2, but afterwards they tried to distance themselves from it and to associate it with the right. Liberalism’s moralistic social crusade to create Utopia is very similar to the attitude of the Nazis and Communists. Fascism is not the opposite of communism, and it is a phenomena of the left-wing not the right-wing. Liberals tend to apply fascism to all of the ideas of their opponents, even though liberalism in America comes from progressivism, which had more in common with Mussolini and Hitler than conservatives do. The term “fascism” is thrown around with great frequency, but it is very difficult to get a clear definition. Summary Introduction: Everything You Know about Fascism is Wrong New Afterword: Barack Obama and the Old Familiar Change Introduction: Everything You Know about Fascism is WrongĬhapter 1 Mussolini: The Father of FascismĬhapter 3 Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of Liberal FascismĬhapter 4 Franklin Roosevelt’s Fascist New DealĬhapter 6 From Kennedy’s Myth to Johnson’s Dream: Liberal Fascism and the Cult of the StateĬhapter 7 Liberal Racism: The Eugenic Ghost in the Fascist MachineĬhapter 9 Brave New Village: Hillary Clinton and the Meaning of Liberal FascismĬhapter 10 The New Age: We’re All Fascists Now Goldberg maintains that contemporary American liberals still bear the earmarks of fascism, with their desire to implement a totalitarian (but benevolent) rule over the nation (for its own good). He documents the fascism of American Progressivism and its support of European fascism before WW2. In Liberal Fascism, Goldberg argues that fascism is not a phenomenon of the right, but rather of the left.

A USA Today contributor and former columnist for the Times of London, he has also written for The New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal. Jonah Goldberg is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a contributing editor to National Review. A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance About the Author

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