Quin Hillyer of the American Spectator has a good article on the parallels between Mussolini’s Fascist corporatism and the misguided economic policies embraced by the federal government since the fall.

Hillyer, who has been unfairly maligned by some pundits, writes

[...] Some of us noted even when Bush started us on this path that it had similarities to fascist economics. And I take a back seat to nobody in having fought against real neo-Nazism on the right, as a founding board member of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism (which carried the fight against David Duke).

Again, this is a question of freedom. It’s a question of free enterprise, free markets, and free minds. When an administration takes over banks and car companies, and makes moves to force through a takeover of the entire health care industry without the ordinary procedural safeguards, and (even under Bush) forces banks to buy other banks against their will, then this isn’t the America we know and love. This is instead a country ruled by a top-down, command-and-control, invasive, barely accountable, self-selected elite.

And that is dangerous. And, minus the antipathy to labor unions, that is the very definition of Italian economic fascism. [...] 

For the record I have been sounding the alarm bell about Fascist corporatism even longer.

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