Tag: fascism

Capitol Report (Sept. 8): DC Mayor Declares State of Emergency; Washington Mourns Death of Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday, sending shock waves through the UK and the world. Her oldest son has taken the throne. The House GOP is vowing to change Washington’s approach to China. What do Republicans say about taking back the majority and countering the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? To assess how a Republican-led Congress would…


Who Are You Calling a Fascist, Mr. President?

Commentary The other day, President Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to “semi-fascism.” This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party’s constituents in this way. Then again, Biden, who once alleged that the chaste Mitt Romney was harboring a desire to bring…


Biden Ups the Rhetoric Against Republicans

Commentary President Joe Biden crossed a line of sorts last week when he characterized the philosophy of Donald Trump and his supporters as “semi-fascism.” “Fascism,” of course, is the verbal f-bomb of politics. As it’s most commonly used today, it’s an inflammatory insult, a rhetorical flame-thrower’s delight. It’s a virtual knee to the groin, a…


Getting Used to the F-word

Commentary There has never been much agreement on the definition of fascism. Nevertheless, the impression that, whatever its form, it always has to do with the triumph of the will over nature, seems a penetrating truth about early fascism as well as its more recent manifestations. The French saying Chassez le naturel, il revient au…


How Communism Led to Fascism and Violence

Commentary Communism is an ideology supposedly meant to achieve equality and peace. Still, in reality, its promotion of dictatorship and violent takeover of the means of production have invariably led to some of the world’s worst authoritarian regimes. As a result, tens of millions were killed in wars, famines, and genocides, including against Koreans, Afghans,…


Dictatorship Chic

Commentary In the trajectory laid out by F.A. Hayek in his 1944 book, “The Road to Serfdom,” dictatorship is the end game of a period of immense government failure. The ruling class begins by tinkering with the normal function of markets and society with some high goal in mind (think: virus eradication) and the results are…


The Senior Executive Service: Heart of the Medical Deep State

Analysis To understand and prioritize the stack of possible responses to the advanced state of corruption within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), think of a pyramid-shaped hierarchy of problems and issues. The origin of these issues and the overall administrative state can be traced to the Pendleton Act of 1883, which was…


The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health

Commentary Fascism is the art of hiding the truth behind a facade of wholesome virtue. It is, presumably, as old as humanity. Mussolini just gave it a name—hiding his authoritarian ideas behind the drainage of swamps, village renewal, kids in school, and trains running on time. The 1930s picture of Nazism was not broken windows…


“A Modern Form of Fascism”

“We want the people who run the government to be the people we elect to run the government—not the managerial elites who pull the strings from behind the scenes,” says entrepreneur and commentator Vivek Ramaswamy. In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discusses the undue influence of bureaucrats in government and the…


[Premiering 7:00PM ET] PART 2: James Lindsay—The Woke War on Reality and a Strange Fusion of Fascism and Communism

Previously, in part one of this interview with James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses and author of “Race Marxism,” we discussed Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” and the rise of a new Marxism based not on class, but identity and race. Now in part two, we discuss how powerful elites have co-opted woke ideology, the rise…