Because I think you should probably read Jonah in his own words, and not just in mine, I recommend checking out his long interview with Alex Koppelman at Salon. One of the interesting tensions in the interview is one of them more depressing tensions in the book. Jonah begins, in part, by worrying that "we see fascism as a thing of the right," and he wants to rescue the right from that label. Fair enough. That's the book's weak claim, and it's true: The contemporary right is not fascist. But in order to make a book of it, he goes to a strong claim, which is that fascism is not a thing of the right, it's a thing of the left. And so we get exchanges like this one:
