![]() ![]() ![]() Other times, the problem is that people on the left in the 1920s were, at the time, unduly soft on fascism. ![]() ![]() Thus, sometimes liberals are too mean to the non-Hitler fascists of the world. You might call this book "disparate essays about fascism and American liberalism designed to annoy liberals." He doesn't seem to care about what his various claims amount to or even whether or not they're inconsistent. One major problem with the book is that Goldberg has no ability whatsoever to stick to a coherent line of argument. But I've read it, and here's what I think. It gets pretty tedious in parts, contrary to the faint praise with which a lot of people have been damning it it's not witty or clever, so I won't deny having skimmed over parts where I already got the point. So while I've been poking and jibing at Jonah Goldberg, I've also been making my way through his book. It seems that nothing gets conservatives off nearly so much as writing obviously unserious books with patently offensive titles, designed in every way to not be taken seriously, and then get huffy when people make fun of them without having given their precious works the deep consideration they deserve. ![]()
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