Mommy Fascism ( or Statism, if you like )

clipped from www.americanthinker.com Liberals would say that “liberal fascism” is an oxymoron, and a hateful one at that.  How could liberals have anything to do with right-wing fascism?  But sixty years ago Hayek in The Road to Serfdom had already made the connection.  He quoted Peter Drucker:  “Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”  Communists and fascists, Hayek continues, “compete for the same type of mind and reserve for each other the hatred of the heretic.” they belong to the same nostalgic tradition as the communists and fascists. For Goldberg American liberal fascism begins with the Progressive movement that flourished at the turn of the twentieth century and reached its full flood in the “we planned in war” economy of the Wilson administration in World War I.  American voters turned the Progressives out in 1920, so when the Progressives returned to power in 1932 with the New Deal they rebranded themselves as liberals.  Liberal or Progressive, the New Deal was fascist

“When we get to today’s liberal fascism Jonah (Goldberg) describes what I would like to call mommy fascism. The fascism of the 1930s was a daddy fascism featuring a militarized command economy and smart CCC uniforms with everyone marching in step. Mommy fascism is different and Jonah takes the reader through Hillary Clinton’s It Takes a Village to show how it works.”

“If Orwell’s 1984 described a masculine dystopia then Clinton’s Village echoes the feminine dystopia of Brave New World “where man is smothered with care, not cruelty” from the very cradle. ”