“Goldberg’s thesis, that conservatives can’t be fascist because fascism is really a liberal ideology, doesn’t work.”
If you are a conservative, you believe in minimal government intervention into the free market. If you are a fascist, you most certainly do *not* believe that. So as far as economics is concerned, you cannot be both conservative and fascist. But you can certainly be both “liberal” (modern sense) and fascist. It’s really about as simple as that.
If you are a conservative, you believe in minimal government intervention into the free market. If you are a fascist, you most certainly do *not* believe that. So as far as economics is concerned, you cannot be both conservative and fascist. But you can certainly be both “liberal” (modern sense) and fascist. It’s really about as simple as that.No you can't. Modern "liberals" fundamentally *cannot* be fascist. Just as conservatism can't be fascist because it doesn't believe in state intervention, liberals don't believe in fetishizing the past, an necessary condition for fascism. How many times do we have to go over this?