Here’s my takeaway from this asinine article:
People who like the Latin Mass and Evangelicals are kooks, and Jason Kessler who is supposedly a Charlottesville neo-nazi was once an Occupy Wall Streeter
Therefore, Libertarianism is a pipeline to fascism.
Got it??
Interesting.
That a libertarian rag would equate libertarianism to fascism.
(Which ain’t that hard to do.)
There isn’t one. Fascism is anathema to liberty.
The author wishes it were so.
How NR has fallen. That was the most incoherent piece of gobble de gook I I have bothered with in a long time
The author of this thing must have drunk when he wrote it.
The only commonality I see is that Fascism and libertarianism both reject egalitarianism. That’s not a lot to go on, really. I guess you could say they agree that the means of production should be privately owned, but even that is pretty sketchy, with Fascism holding that the state can and should dictate what gets produced. Of course there is the “everyone I disagree with is the same type of poopyhead” theory of politics, which seems to be in play with this NR piece.
An interesting array of facts, anecdotes, and theorizing, leading me to believe that the author had a column due but put off writing until it was too late to produce anything decent.
C+. It has decent sentences, and there is a thesis with support, even if I don’t buy it.
This article is logical contortions. So many strawmen.
I read the whole article, and still don’t know what the author’s point was.
I wonder why the author didn’t consider this: if a man can say he is a woman, isn’t that a “pipeline” to all other sorts of irrationalism and paranoia? If “whiteness” is intrinsically bad and unredeemable, isn’t THAT belief a pipeline to irrationalism, paranoia, and - perhaps - murder?