[Hugh Akston]

Silly is denying the Nazis were leftist.

Even sillier is trying to act as if you don't even need to back up your silly assertion with any reasoning.

[White Mountain]

You write:

Even sillier is trying to act as if you don't even need to back up your silly assertion with any reasoning.

Good point. Gimlet sounds like an apologist for liberalism (or socialism or communism) who is hoping to turn people away from a useful insight through some mild intimidation.

[austinTparty]

A little perusal Of F. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" is all you need to back up the titular assertion... :-)