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tcaudilllg
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.
Hahaha, are you seriously implying that ****** was a Paleoconservative? ******, history's most notorious Statist, the leader of a fascist government that instituted strict government control of basically every aspect of German society, is somehow a Paleoconservative, a political philosophy so deeply paranoid about government power that almost every use of it is viewed as some sinister conspiracy? The very idea that "most paleoconservatives don't have a gripe with Communitarian philosophy" is actually the exact opposite of the whole point of Mitchell's book -- Paleocons loathe the Communitarian philosophy almost as much as they loathe Progressives.
Next you'll be trying to tell me that Stalin wasn't an extreme Progressive at all, but really a Libertarian Individualist.
One of us needs to read Mitchell's book a little more carefully, but it isn't me.