Jonah Goldberg with some brief thoughts on the unconscious fascism of the denizens of the Beltway.
[Update in the afternoon]
Mickey has a good point:
We need a Czar Czar, to crack the whip on all the czars. … P.S.: Also a federal czar policy. Right now, czar decisions are made on an ad hoc, case-by-case basis, with no attempt at czar harmonization.
It seems like a logical next step.
I think the term has taken on the definition of: meaningless figurehead. Which is far more accurate a definition than Car Dictator, which implies he/she will tell us which cars to buy, as well as what will be produced. While there may be a period of time where the latter will be true, market realities will ensure the only buyers for the new “K-cars” will be the government transportation entities. These cars will have the same panache and reputation as the Soviet Union’s state produced vehicles. I look forward to seeing government employees ferry and be ferried about in these hybrid clunkers. Meanwhile the made in the USA non-union so called foreign cars will provide efficient hybrids as well as efficient traditional vehicles at lower cost than these Algoremobiles.
Pshaw, what do you mean unconscious, Rand?
Pshaw, what do you mean unconscious, Rand?
I mean that they don’t think of it as fascism. If they did, they themselves would be appalled. But they’re too historically ignorant to get it.
Oh, well, in that case, for what it’s worth, these folks have such flexibility in their mental dictionaries (“it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”) that they can easily call black “white” if that reflects Higher Truth.
I thought you meant a more serious form of unconsciousness, such as is exhibited by people who are naive or deluded, who are in love with the utopian ideals and do not realize the regrettable means they’ve chosen to achieve them actually prevent them. Such people exist (although not in Washington), and are to be pitied, and educated.