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Feb, 2009 it was actually a briton, hg wells, who coined the term liberal fascism. The leftists and the liberals have brazenly concocted history, inverted some of the themes with massive help from the academicians and the media, and managed to place fascism as a. And it is liberals, not conservatives, who see government coercion as the key to getting things done. When his book liberal fascism came out last year, i didnt buy it because for some reason maybe the smiley face with the hitler moustache as the cover art, maybe the very provocative title i assumed, despite knowing that goldberg is a talented and intellectual writer, that the book was a conservative preaching semihysterically ala ann. About jonah goldberg follow jonah goldberg on twitter november 18, 2008 4. Fascists, brownshirts, jackbooted stormtrooperssuch are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Hi jonah just got around to reading your article on liberal fascism and its critics. In liberal fascism jonah goldberg turns the world as it has been shown to you upside down.
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