Fair enough. I think many people throw around the Nazi label way too freely. But what really gets me is that those who throw it around the most are the very ones who share the Nazi economic ideology almost completely — but are too ignorant to know it.
It is only such ignorance that allows Hillary and Charley Rangel to get away with invoking the specter of Nazism with regard to Republican tax cuts, for example. And it only such ignorance that allows the MoveOn bunch to compare Bush with Hitler even though they themselves have much more in common with Hitler than Bush ever did or will.
He is surprisingly adept at offering the charitable bone to those he castigates in a manner to keep the opponent to his argument involved.
I must stress again that my main point in jumping in on this, and one other week old thread, is my true delight at seeing what Goldberg has grown into by this publication.
We lament that we have seen the end of the era where Kirk, Meyer, Weaver, Hayek have left us and the twilight of the time for Sowell and Buckley. Goldberg has actually risen to that status from the ranks of the nattering nabobs by this publication.
Daily columnists always have a percentage of their constant production hit a wrong note or make the writer appear in the lesser ranks of rhetorical advocates. Perhaps I had under rated Goldberg for that reason.
With this book, he has made me realize that this young man is going to become one of the great standard bearers of the conservative movement.
If Trixie is browsing the postings across the Internet, I hope she feels the true blush of maternal pride.