THE ‘FASCIST’ LEFT IN AMERICA, as charted by Stephen Moore, who writes:

Liberal fascism, as my friend Jonah Goldberg has aptly pointed out in his book of the same title, is the “collaboration of government, church, unions and interest groups to expand government. It is simply the liberal impulse for controlling the lives of others.” It is the religion of the left.

The weird argument that Mr. Trump is a fascist, but Mr. Obama isn’t, is as specious as the left’s rant that the greatest surgeon in the world, Ben Carson, doesn’t have the right qualifications to be president, but a man who’s only accomplishment in life was to be a community organizer in the streets of Chicago was perfectly trained to oversee our $18 trillion economy and take over as our commander in chief.

Ironically, the left intelligentsia that is accusing Mr. Trump of fascism, are many of the same people in Hollywood who just made a movie celebrating the communists/fascists of the 1950s within their ranks — and portraying them sympathetically as blackballed victims, rather than subversive supporters of butchers who killed millions of Jews, blacks, gays, Christians, and dissidents.

Many of the communists in Hollywood, not least of all Trumbo, were avid supporters of Stalin and even remained so after his genocidal purges were well-documented. Even the Russians themselves have repudiated the savagery of Stalin — but not the American left.

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If middle class American voters are so afraid, so angry, so distrustful of Washington, and feeling so economically marginalized that millions would throw their support behind a man routinely denounced as a dangerous Nazi/fascist, maybe the left might want to ask: who made things so bad that it has come to this? Without Barack Obama’s full slate of failures and his eight years of polarizing politics, there could be no Donald Trump.

And while Trump is predictably dubbed a ‘fascist’ by the left, Viacom spokesman Larry Wilmore allows one of his guests to employ an equally shopworn cliche against Ted Cruz:

In what may be the worst series of attacks by the liberal media on Ted Cruz, Monday’s Nightly Show on Comedy Central featured host Larry Wilmore declaring that the ‘creepy’ Cruz may be mentally disturbed with guest Aida Rodriguez firmly asserting that, if elected, Cruz’s agenda would be to ‘do everything the KKK does.'”

Huh — I must have misread Cruz’s ideology — I never considered that he would be all that big a fan of Woodrow Wilson.