>Regarding calling the Straussians fascists (or proto-fascists): what
>*can* we call an ideology whose exponents support a push to limit our
>formal freedoms, an emphasis on some kind of shared and essential
>national
>identity, and an expansionist and militarist foreign policy? Of course
>it
>is not Nazism or Fascism yet: we do still have our freedoms,
>and there is no positive American type to which we're all to aspire (or
>else.) It may never get that far--but so what? How else can one
>characterize such a position?
Authoritarian nationalism?