Oh yeah? Let's have a look at what historians report about the Arian Heresy and St. Athanasius' role in it:
"Athanasius and the Church of Our Time," p. 23
By Msgr. R. Graber, Bishop of Regensburg, 1974,St. Athanasius, one of the Four Great Eastern Doctors of the Church, lived in the fourth century, during the time of what used to be considered the greatest crisis of faith ever to befall the Catholic Church, the Arian Heresy. The Arians (not to be confused with the Aryans, who were the progenitors of the Indo-European peoples) denied the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The vast majority of churchmen fell into this heresy, so much so that St. Jerome wrote of the period: ingemuit totus orbis et Arianum se esse miratus est (the whole world groaned and was amazed to find itself Arian).
St. Athanasius was the Bishop of Alexandria in Egypt for 46 years. He was banned from his diocese at least five times and spent a total of 17 years in exile. He was censured, exiled, and hounded by a nominal Church hierarchy that was for the most part in heresy. He even suffered an unjust excommunication from Pope Liberius (352-366) who himself was under Arian influence, signed a semi-Arian document, and is held by some Church historians to have fallen into personal heresy.
It is a cold fact of history that St. Athansius stood virtually alone against the onslaught of heretical teaching ravaging the Church of his day, saying that "If the world goes against the truth, then Athanasius goes against the world (Athanasius contra mundum). The saint even consecrated orthodox bishops outside his own diocese, acting out of necessity for the good of the Church.
St. Athanasius was described by John Henry Cardinal Newman as a "principal instrument, after the Apostles, by which the sacred truths of Christianity have been conveyed and secured to the world." Often referred to as the Champion of Orthodoxy, St. Athanasius was undoubtedly one of the most courageous defenders of the Faith in the entire history of the Church. If anyone can be singled out as a saint for our times, surely it is St. Athanasius.
The Catholic Church survived the Arian crisis, and so it will survive the present one. For our part, it is our duty to remain faithful to the unchangeable teaching and Sacred Tradition of our Holy Catholic Church, and not to compromise the Faith in any way with the present trend of Liberalism and Modernism sweeping the Church worldwide.
"What happened over 1600 years ago is repeating itself today, but with two or three differences: Alexandria today is the whole Universal Church, the stability of which is being shaken, and what was undertaken at that time by means of physical force and cruelty is now being transformed to a different level. Exile is replaced by banishment into the silence of being ignored; killing by assassination of character." --
What historian? Your author is a propagandist. This subject has been visited many times. The parallels between Lefebvre and Athanasius end when asked if the pope forbid Athanasius's concecration of bishops.