[RussP]

“The whole liberalism is fascism carnard doesn’t inform debate, it just inflames emotions and rallies the faithful.”

I am quoting your quote of ketsu here.

This one really takes the cake for mendacity. The “liberalism is fascism” canard?! And what about the “conservatism is fascism” canard — which has been used perhaps 1,000,000 times as often as the “liberalism is fascism” canard?

The other “canard” here is that Goldberg claimed that “liberalism is fascism.” But of course ketsu doesn’t need to be bothered with what Goldberg actually said or wrote ... because he reads Hegel and Marx. The point is not that the two are identical, but that, contrary to popular misconception, they have one hell of a lot more in common than conservatism and fascism have in common. In particular, they share virtually the same economic ideology.

[KC Burke]

Not knowing the poster, I am charitably thinking that his point was that calling a Democrat the historical heir to the Nazi legacy is no more convincing and listenable to that person in dialogue than when it is done to a poster here in something he reads.

However, Goldberg does try to show that history, in a kind and considerate arguement and does so fairly well, IMHO.