[lbo-talk] anti-pro contradictions

[Somebody Somebody]

Calling them pro-statist probably overstates matters. Nobody's advocating for 30's style organic unity of the classes under a charismatic leader, or even anything faintly reminiscent of it. Real statists, if anything, might be calling *for* death panels. They're basically extreme conservatives of the American type - business oriented, anti-tax, and pro-traditional institutions (namely the armed component of the state). 


>From the polling data discussed on this list, and from my own experience interacting with tea party types, they tend to be a little too well off and self-satisfied to be good proto-fascist material, although I would guess such people are an over-represented minority of them. If push came to shove, and I doubt it will, maybe you could see them supporting an American Petain or Hindenburg, rather than a good-old-boy Mussolini.