Doug writes:
>
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
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>> 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.
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I said a "whiff" of fascism. If fascism ever does come to America, this is
what it's core base would look like - small town, patriotic, xenophobic,
elite-hating, aggressively ordinary. Meantime, I continue to describe it as
conservative.