On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Curtiss Leung wrote:
> ... 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?