I do need to ask myself sometimes what it is about me that keeps me from drifting further left. I miss regularly reading that blog very much. He's way, way left now gladly voted for Hillary, hated Trump all four years. Worked on a political campaign in NJ as well, IIRC. Wonderful book reviews, thoughtful views on the War on Terror - Republican going way back.
I used to follow Orrin Judd at Brothers Judd Blog for years. Jay Nordlinger, Mona Charen, Jonah Goldberg, Jane Galt Blog (Megan McArdle), LGF, Patterico, etc. There seems to be a generation of folks on the Blogosphere that went off the deep end, of which Ed is just the latest one of those. He also went through considerable effort publicizing the Ezra Levant media blackout in Canada when nobody else would, IIRC. I was a regular reader of Captain's Quarters, and Ed did wonderful work publicizing the Dan Rather saga during Bush's first term. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at Janu12:24 PM (sfhL4) The quintessential Liberal Fascist isn't an SS storm trooper it is a female grade school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore. The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term "National socialism"). Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism. I just want to quote Goldberg's blurb on "Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change".
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