The Left is fascinated with their own crew of fascists

The progressives are furious about Jonah Goldberg's new book "Liberal Fascism. He commits the sin of reminding them of the facts. And once reminded of the facts, it becomes easier to understand the idolatry the Left has for the current crew of undemocratic iron-fisted rulers.

The fascists of the 1930's -- national socialists -- such as Mussolini were Leftists, praised and supported by the international Left. The Hitler-Stalin pact was signed by two socialists, and the pro-Soviet "progressive forces" had unlimited praise for the German national socialist regime, only changing their tune for political reasons when the German's attacked their beloved Soviet Union and the international propaganda machine of the Left did a 180 degree turn.

If Col. Hugo Chavez carried out exactly the same internal policies as he has been doing, but declared himself to be pro-U.S. or anti-Castro, the Latin Leftists would be his worst enemies and they would be the ones denouncing him as a corrupt, dictatorial militarist and the Hollywood airheads would lose all interest in him. Of course, in that case, their preferred term would be to call him a "fascist", which he obviously is.