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Shorter Jonah Goldberg book:
Nazis wanted to clean up the environment. So do liberals! Nazis wanted to cure cancer. So do liberals! Nazis liked organic food and many were vegetarians. So are many liberals! A lot of Nazis were gay and a lot of liberals are, too! Nazis made Volkswagons and liberals love to drive them! Hitler loved dogs and so do many liberals!We've got a copy in the office, and it really begs the application of the old Brad DeLong quote: Even after accounting for the fact that Jonah Goldberg's book is worse than you can imagine, it's still worse than you can imagine. And no, that summary is not exaggerated. I'm actually surprised, flipping through it, that nobody sat Jonah down and talked him out of this one. I mean, check out the Tom Wolfe blurb that Goldberg's so proud of: "Jonah Goldberg is the first historian to detail the havoc this spin of all spins has played upon Western thought for the past 75 years, very much including the present moment. Love it or loathe it, 'Liberal Fascism' is a book of intellectual history you won't be able to put down—-in either sense of the term.” I hate to break it to him, but when your ideological ally offers a blurb saying something like, "this book may be crap, but you've already spent twenty bucks," things are not going well for you.
