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Paul Gottfried is an Odd Duck
Really he is. There’s a spectrum on what I like to call the “Real Right,” from White Nationalists to paleoconservatives, to libertarians of various stripes, and Paul falls right in the middle, as a paleoconservative. The self-styled “neoconservatives” aren’t conservative in any sense of all, but are merely liberals who find themselves in real or imagined opposition to the liberal establishment. The differences between liberals and neoconservatives are like the differences between hogs and swine. Mostly terminological.Anyhow, there are lots of paleoconservatives around, but — and here’s why Paul is an odd duck — very few of them are, like Paul, Jewish. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of American Jews…
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Fascism-Shmashism
Yeah, she’s got her thumb wrong.Back in the old days, when it was all Catholicism, the best name to pin on an enemy was “heretic.” Worked like a charm. It scared the crap out of your adversary, and he dropped everything else to defend himself against the charge, lest the Spanish Inquisition (which he damn well did expect) get him. “Witch” worked too, but it was sometimes too specific, and you needed more evidence, at least somewhat plausible, to get the witch name to stick. Today the two words are “fascist” and “racist.” The first, like “heretic,” is wonderfully vague, while “racist,” though effective, is…
