So, the recent news out of the Obama camp is that they're planning a huge rally with thousands of people in a stadium, want to create a mandatory youth corps for national service, and are thinking about a big dramatic speech in Berlin.
It's like they're trying to sell copies of Jonah's book or something.
Gerghty has links in his post.
Let's not forget the media that's practically entranced by him, Obama's ill-fated presidential campaign seal, and the legions of cultish fans that love him on a deep emotional level.
I do recommend Jonah Goldberg's book. It's a fair history primer that actually defines what Fascism is. For someone that actually wants more insight into a horrible, totalitarian ideology than using it as an expletive to mock people you don't like.
Personally, I don't think Obama is using Fascist rhetoric, just populist emotional tripe layered with the idea that the state is the beginning and end of all solutions, an that politics is everything.
Let's be totally fair, we don't know what an Obama presidency will be like. That's the magic of Hope-Change. It can be anything you want it to be. Chances are it won't, but it could have been.
So, there is a difference, but the idea of a stadium full of people chanting his name...
If McCain were doing stuff like that, I'd be ill-at ease too.
I wouldn't really get worried until Obama proposes repealing the Twenty-Second Amendment.
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