The coming fascism

Ron has an excellent piece over at Middle Earth Journal about the rise of fascism in America, and the not very surprising fact that it seems to be growing like a tumor out of the neocon wing of the GOP. Here's a small piece.

Pointing to the justification of torture by conservative legal theorists, widespread support for a militaristic foreign policy, and a retrospective backing of Japanese internment during World War II, Raimondo raised the prospect of "fascism with a democratic face." His fellow libertarian, Mises Institute president Lew Rockwell, wrote a year-end piece called "The Reality of Red State Fascism," which claimed that "the most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism, manifested in the Congressional elections of 1994, to almost totalitarian statist nationalism.

(My emphais added. ) With that piece in mind, take a look at Michelle Malkin's posts concerning her latest, horrible, racist book. (It's a long defence of the internment of the Japanese. The linked post and the previous ones it links to are about an appearance where she debated it with a non fascist and her current battle to maintain some sort of credibility.) You can also check out her defense of the horrid "Adopt a Sniper" program. We just blogged about that bit of campus nastiness yesterday in the "Devolution" post. I'm not sure why this never crossed my mind before, (perhaps I'm just too much of a cockeyed optimist) but had I thought about it, I would have called Malkin a fascist as soon as I saw those posts. Hmmm... and all this time I just thought she was a nut job.