AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/21/05

"Lew Rockwell has posited the rise of what he calls 'red-state fascism,' as have I, and we can see, from recent events, that this phenomenon is quickly congealing from a fluid potentiality into a hard reality. All the elements of a new American fascism are in place: a regime that recognizes no restraints on its power, either moral or constitutional; the rise of a leader cult surrounding the president; and a foreign policy of relentless aggression. And make no mistake: it is this latter that makes all the rest of it possible. Without the pretext of a wartime emergency, the neoconservative ideologues who seek to reconcile constitutional 'originalism' with a legal and political doctrine of presidential hegemony that would have horrified the Founders would be relegated to the margins and considered harmless crackpots. Today, however, the crackpots are not only in power, they are going on the offensive -- with much success...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8284


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp