The Big Lie

What we call liberalism—the refurnished edifice of American progressivism—is in fact a descendant of and manifestation of fascism.”

Hayek identified fascism as a phenomenon of the Left, a cousin of socialism and progressivism. And he warned, “The rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.”

They do this not merely through the type of blatant propagandizing and outright lying that would do Joseph Goebbels proud, but also through the relentless battering and forced exclusion of dissident voices from their cultural institutions, so that theirs is the only point of view that is communicated to the vast majority of students and citizens.

The Real Fascists

First, the violence did not go away.

A Rationale for Violence

Many years ago the philosopher Leo Strauss, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, deplored what he termed the Reductio ad Hitlerum,

Hitler, in his unremitting hatred for the Jews—a hatred based not on what they did or even on their religion but simply because of their racial and biological identity

If you watched the major networks or public television, or listened to National Public Radio, you would have no idea that Hillary’s America even existed.

The answer is you have to dominate all the large megaphones of the culture, from academia to the movies to the major media.