Thomas Lifton and Stephen Young, writing at The American Thinker.com, have given an excellent response to Joe Biden’s claim that Trump supporters are semi-fascist, which was not defined. The thought bubble is that Trumpers are fascists. However, they argue that the opposite is true, and that the Left, as represented by the Democrats in varying degrees, right up to bat-vaxxed crazy communism and CCP alliances, fits the classic definition of ‘fascism,” far more accurately. As they note, the modern Democrat party, and Leftism in general perfectly meets all the elements of Mussolini’s fascism:
- “Irrational philosophies: Postmodernism is an irrational will to power; intersectionality is irrationally prejudicial; toxic masculinity is irrationally prejudicial; destruction of a fetus when it can survive as a person outside the womb is an unbalanced application of the principle of human dignity.
- Racialist aesthetics: stigmatizing “Whites” or considering them morally deformed by “White Privilege” is a racialist aesthetic regarding human persons; blaming institutional racism for the achievement gap is racialist aesthetics at work in public education; Harvard created a special racialist aesthetics for Asians to denigrate their possible contributions to “student life”.
- Anti-capitalist demagogy: Green New Deal, Medicare for All, forgiveness of college debt, Woke Capitalism.
- Heterodox currency views: Modern Monetary Theory
- Criticism of the party system: privileging ideology with cancel culture
- Widespread disparagement of the ‘regime’: the narrative of Systemic White Racism; defund the police; the fervid anti-Trump Resistance using mainstream media, the CIA, the FBI, and a special prosecutor; setting up a purifying “Ministry of Truth” in the Department of Homeland Security, our modest version of a Ministry of State Security; abolishing the Electoral College, and packing the Supreme Court.”
The freedom movement, and Dissent Right are primarily pro-liberty because we see individuals of key moral value unlike social structures and collectivist entities.
