For my entire life I’ve been told that the next presidential election is “the most important in history”, but this time I think it might actually be true.
The word fascism is being thrown around with abandon these days.
One of our two presidential candidates referred to the opposing party as “communists, Marxists, fascists, and … radical-left thugs...”
I’m still trying to get my mind around the concept of a communist, Marxist, fascist, but I digress.
In another corner of the political map, a liberal economist has published a video and several columns referring to this same candidate as a fascist.
Our incumbent president doesn’t go quite that far, referring to his most likely rival’s statements as “semi-fascist”.
Back in my Vietnam Protest days it used to drive me nuts that many of my friends labeled anyone not fully on board with the anti-war agenda as a fascist.
I knew a lot of folks, Dad for instance, who were from the “Greatest Generation”. They had lived through World…
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