NDP leader Thomas Mulcair says Trump is a “fascist.” And so do countless others. When leftists say “fascist,” it often means “right-wing people or opinions that offend me.” In fact fascism can arise on the left or the right. In his bestselling 2007 book, Liberal Fascism (with an afterword on Obama in the 2009 edition), conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg offers this working definition: “Fascism is a religion of the state. This, Goldberg, argues, is “nice” fascism, symbolized by the book’s cover image of a smiley-face emoji sporting a familiar little mustache. Under Wilson, more dissidents were arrested or jailed in a few years than under Mussolini during the entire 1920s.

Source: National Post January 31, 2017 15:06 UTC