Jonah Goldberg lecturing on hubris. That's rich.
The man who preaches that America is so "exceptional" that we should invade the world and flood our land with 3rd Worlders.
Of course, the fool honestly thinks Naziism and Fascism were liberal movements, so expecting him to say anything insightful is setting yourself up for disappointment.
One of the great things about American politics is its capacity for punishing hubris.
For the ancient Greeks, hubris didn't merely describe god-like arrogance. It was a crime, usually defined as taking too much pleasure in the humiliation of your foes. In its modern usage it usually means the pride that comes before the fall.
In the wake of Barack Obama's State of the Union address, both connotations seem at least a little apt. We are well into our fourth month of epidemic thumb-suckery over the question, "Are the Republicans doomed?" The latest New York Times Magazine asks, "Can the Republicans...
Yes, Jonah wrote a stupid book trying to reimagine Naziism and Fascism as leftist movements. They were not. They were collective movements of the right as Communism was of the left.
Read Jerry Pournelle's doctoral thesis from 1963 (or just look at the chart at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart).
Left-vs-right division is too simplistic, that's why seeming paradoxes of coinciding priorities of communists and fascists.
2. He does not think we should invade the world
3. nor flood our land with 3rd Worlders, (whatever that means)
4. he doesn't think Nazism and Fascism were Liberal, he thinks they were socialist.