"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance towards those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions, or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
- Henry A. Wallace
- “American Fascism” in the New York Times, 1944
Here's my reply: "Reads like Wallace is describing his hero of that time, Josef Stalin. Wallace turned around 8 years later and denounced Stalin for exactly what he decries above. IOW, Wallace had a Damascus Road experience when the scales fell from his eyes about how Communism really operated. In 1944, Wallace was such a squish about "Uncle Joe" that he was dropped from being re-elected as VP with FDR. Wallace was not ready for the reality of the post-war world. Wallace's 1948 presidential run on the Progressive Party was taken over by the Communist Party of the USA and included a Soviet spy as a speechwriter. So, as far as Wallace having any particularly great insight in such matters...meh, not so much, IMO."
This morning's wet match retort from the lib: "He is just giving a definition, and I definitely see a parallel between his definition and our government now."
Okay, I'm thinking of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders right now.
... is combined with such an intensity of intolerance towards those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions, or nations ...
Now I'm thinking of the Social Justice Warriors who hate so many people: Men, Whites, Christians, Republicans, etc. The level of intolerance on college campuses is now so great that many comedians won't perform at most schools. And if a march is scheduled for a patriotic cause violent Antifa thugs will show up in masks to disrupt the whole thing. The Left certainly has "intensity of intolerance"
... as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
And now we're back to the Clintons and Obama with the ruthlessness, the violence. Ask Seth Rich about that. Or the FBI, DOJ, IRS folks. Ruthless deceit? Yeah, that's the Left. They are Fascists.