As Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of National Review Online, writes in his new book Liberal Fascism: Is this an account in 2004 by a blogger on the leftwing Daily Kos website, railing feverishly against President Bush and the Global War on Terror? No, it’s a description of the state of our nation in 1917, under President Wilson during World War I. Even popular foods bearing the names of now-unpopular, formerly allied nations are spontaneously renamed, in banal demonstrations of mass support for the war effort.
Opponents of the war are demonized, their patriotism routinely questioned. With America committed to war overseas, an American president (who many consider to be racist) suspends vast swatches of American liberties. Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.
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