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April 01, 2008
The Liberals' Break With Their Past: Still Waiting
In response to a fair-minded liberal's query, Jonah Goldberg writes:
Whenever I hear the criticism as offered above [that Jonah's application of the fascism meme have become a bit "fevered"] I often want to ask: “Okay, if you agree with me that Progressivism, Wilsonian war socialism, and New Deal corporatism were all to one extent or another fascistic, when do you think liberalism went about the hard work of shedding itself of this baggage?”Because when I look around, I see a lot of liberals lionizing the New Deal and celebrating their own profound indebtedness to the very same progressives you admit were disturbingly fascistic.
Exactly. I'd be very interested in studying that defining moment when liberals changed their stripes. Over forty years ago, William F. Buckley read the John Birchers out of the conservative movement--when did the liberals do the same for the eugenicists, anti-individualists and imperialists that formed the basis of the Progressive party?
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