Third-Tier Pundits, Part 4

Even some on the right question these Third-Tier Pundits. Some excerpts from Michael Ledeen's Fascism, Liberal and Otherwise:

Some of his fans have praised Jonah for writing a work of history, but it isn’t, really. ===== What is missing from Jonah’s book—he mentions it in passing a few times, but never gives it the weight it deserves—is the specific historical context from which fascism was born: the First World War. ===== “What distinguished Nazism from other brands of socialism and communism was not so much that it included more aspects from the political right (though there were some). What distinguished Nazism was that it forthrightly included a worldview we now associate almost completely with the political left: identity politics.” And in case you thought he was kidding, he repeats it a few pages later: “What mattered to (Hitler) was German identity politics.” The best that can be said about this is that it’s imaginative. But it’s what happens when you are bound and determined to put liberals, Socialists, Communists, fascists and Nazis into a common political home.

Pretty much speaks for itself.

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