Defending the Truth of DSouzas Big Lie/caption
From his book review of Dinesh DSouzas latest Washington Times columnist Michael Taube gets it wrong. Mr. Taubes article title incorrectly proclaims Fascists to the right fascists to the left". Yet the whole point of The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left" is to clarify that Nazism/Fascism/Socialism are political movements exclusive to the left. In other words despite this scribes misleading assertion they are never of the political right. Want an example of a radical" right-wing group? Try the Tea Party!
To be fair Mr. Taube touches on Ronald Reagans famous 60 Minutes" quote from 1975 If fascism ever comes to America it will come in the name of liberalism." But what else did The Gipper" say that this reviewer vitally left out? To continue with Mr. Reagans now prophetic words:
And what is fascism? Fascism is private ownershipprivate enterprisebut total government control and regulation. Well isnt this the liberal philosophy? The conservative so-called is the one that says less governmentget off my back get out of my pocketand let me have more control of my own destiny."
Put simply these three sister philosophies of big government cannot be of the right. On a related matter President Trump cannot be a fascist or a socialist because he is a deregulating unapologetic capitalist! Likewise he cant be a Nazi either because he is for example staunchly pro-Israel. Indeed Mr. Trumps America First" policies of economic self-determinationand his outspoken refutation of liberals and the MSMdefine him as a true patriot in our tumultuous modern age.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.