[lbo-talk] Scott McConnell On Red State Fascism

[mike larkin]

"But Rockwell (and Roberts and Raimondo) is correct in
drawing attention to a mood among some conservatives
that is at least latently fascist. Rockwell describes
a populist Right website that originally rallied for
the impeachment of Bill Clinton as “hate-filled ...
advocating nuclear holocaust and mass bloodshed for
more than a year now.” One of the biggest right-wing
talk-radio hosts regularly calls for the mass
destruction of Arab cities. Letters that come to this
magazine from the pro-war Right leave no doubt that
their writers would welcome the jailing of dissidents.
And of course it’s not just us. When USA Today founder
Al Neuharth wrote a column suggesting that American
troops be brought home sooner rather than later, he
was blown away by letters comparing him to Tokyo Rose
and demanding that he be tried as a traitor. That
mood, Rockwell notes, dwarfs anything that existed
during the Cold War. “It celebrates the shedding of
blood, and exhibits a maniacal love of the state. The
new ideology of the red-state bourgeoisie seems to
actually believe that the US is God marching on
earth—not just godlike, but really serving as a proxy
for God himself.”"

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_14/article.html

		
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