Matthew Yglesias endorses key point of Liberal Fascism.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 12:30 PM  | 

Background: in the course of trying to boost what has been generally conceded to be a not-particularly-good Second Inaugural speech made by Barack Obama yesterday, Yglesias wrote: Summing up the ideological brief, Obama even indulged in American liberalism’s favorite ideological tic—the insistence that it’s not an ideology at all, but simply a pragmatic response to changing circumstances. Which, if you’ve read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, | Read More »

Class Warfare: American Communists of 1928 Compared to Barack Obama

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 21st at 12:30 PM  | 

The other day I linked to a rather silly post at Think Progress by Matthew Yglesias. His point was that Obama is not engaging in class warfare because if you want real class warfare look at the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1928. That was real class warfare. Never mind how similar some of what the CPGB wanted in 1928 is what Obama is | Read More »