Originally Posted by
Krig the Viking
Um... you do realize that, on Mitchell's chart, the Tea Party is mostly Paleolibertarians, and ******'s brand of statist fascism most closely resembles "Communitarianism" -- i.e., the polar opposite of Paleolibertarianism? Objectively speaking, Obama as a Progressive is far closer to ******'s National Socialism than the Tea Party's right-wing libertarianism could ever even theoretically be.
If you're going to insult the people you pathologically loathe, at least do it accurately.
The Tea Party isn't on Mitchell's chart. Its essence is mentioned only at the end of his book as "postmodern Populism". The Tea Party caucus in Congress is not representative of the real Tea Party, which has been brainwashed electorally by the ubiquitous Murdoch press machine.
I think you should read that book a little more carefully.
****** didn't have a gripe with Communitarian philosophy... most paleoconservatives don't. You're right though that he did use their techniques a lot. Might it have been to control the left? It may well have reflected that he did in fact integrate the center-right Nationalists, who had a Communitarian MO, into the Nazi party. Perhaps he relied on them to keep the social peace. The matter deserves further investigation.