[lbo-talk] of actors and politicians

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 3 09:48:39 PDT 2008


On Oct 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:


> There's a definite whiff of fascism around Palin and the
> constituency she
> represents - an insular nastiness under that down home neighbourless
> and
> gemutlichtkeit.

C'mon, this is ancient American political/cultural kitsch. Small town, patriotic, xenophobic, elite-hating, aggressively ordinary. It's overkill to call it fascist.

Doug



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