Jonah Goldberg Quote
Fascism’s success almost always depends on the cooperation of the losers during a time of economic and technological change. The lower-middle classes—the people who have just enough to fear losing it—are the electoral shock troops of fascism (Richard Hofstadter identified this status anxiety as the source of Progressivism’s quasi-fascist nature). Populist appeals to resentment against fat cats, international bankers, economic royalists, and so on are the stock-in-trade of fascist demagogues.
Jonah Goldberg
Fascism’s success almost always depends on the cooperation of the losers during a time of economic and technological change. The lower-middle classes—the people who have just enough to fear losing it—are the electoral shock troops of fascism (Richard Hofstadter identified this status anxiety as the source of Progressivism’s quasi-fascist nature). Populist appeals to resentment against fat cats, international bankers, economic royalists, and so on are the stock-in-trade of fascist demagogues.