More on fascism

[Malignd]

Re the alacrity and fuzziness with which the word
"fascism" is used:

Christopher Hitchens, in the course of reviewing, in
the Atlantic Monthly, Sidney Blumenthal's book, The
Clinton Wars, talks about how the Democrats and
Republicans, two parties that, in the larger scheme of
things, sit pretty close to one another on the
political spectrum, attempt to exaggerate with
rhetoric such differences as do exist, as if great,
uncrossable gulfs separated the two.  He writes:

"If this [exaggeration] meant anything, it meant that
the difference between a donkey and an elephant was
the difference between democracy and fascism, or
between pluralism and absolutism."

Not my favorite person, Hitchens, but this seems apt.




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