I’ve often wondered about the eye rolls I must get from readers who come along and land on one of my posts asserting that America is a fascist country and has been for a very long time.
Well.
Roosevelt himself called Mussolini “admirable” and professed that he
was “deeply impressed by what he has accomplished.” The admiration was
mutual. In a laudatory review of Roosevelt’s 1933 book Looking Forward,
Mussolini wrote, “Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the
state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.…Without
question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of
Fascism.” The chief Nazi newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter,
repeatedly praised “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains
of thought in his economic and social policies” and “the development
toward an authoritarian state” based on the “demand that collective
good be put before individual self-interest.”
Keep rolling them eyes.