Posted on 02/09/2021 8:25:49 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
One of the most difficult things for a conservative to write about is McCarthyism. Oh, I don’t mean “difficult” in the Oprah Book Club sense of difficult. It’s not painful, or heart-wrenching, or cathartic. I mean it is technically challenging to write about it with clarity and precision. The problem is simple: McCarthyism has come to mean anything liberals or leftists consider to be unfair, unjust, un-nice. It’s simply another example of the general phenomenon described by George Orwell when he wrote in “Politics and the English Language” that “The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’” (See “Orwell’s Orphans.”)
Regan was a 2nd term POTUS when he said “Tear Down This Wall”. Don’t know about the timing of the Viet Nam quote. Everyone on his staff wanted him to cool it with the wall quote. My crush Ms. Green could pay a price and so could the party but what do we have to lose? No more Mr. Nice Guy my friends. Make the left defend themselves.
“Fascism” means one thing, and one thing only: One party control of the political apparatus with capitalism (albeit kept in bounds by the Party) with a nationalist foreign policy. Anyone using any other definition is an ignoramus.
Currently we are experiencing Nanzism.
Nanzi Pelosi is overstepping the powers of her office.
Double impeachment.
Ripping up the State of the Union speech document.
Ushering in a military presence in DC and in capitols from coast to coast because of Democrats’ paranoid hysteria demonizing 75,000,000 Trump voters.
Blacklisting and witchhunting.
>>“Fascism” means one thing, and one thing only: One party control of the political apparatus with capitalism (albeit kept in bounds by the Party) with a nationalist foreign policy.
Like the alliance between the DNC, media, academia, Big Tech, Big Corp, and deep state unelected paper pushers who monkeywrenched the Trump administration from within?
Leaked Zoom Call Shows US Federal Employees Conspiring to Sabotage the Trump Administration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bc20I02Qk
Oh man. 4 responses in 1 hour. Guess you folks aren’t ready for me.
The NATIONALREVIEW participates in this McCarthyism!
I have read that book. It was well-researched, heavily annotated, revealing, and easy to read.
I highly recommend it.
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