Word: nazism
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Buchanan arrived with his Bible and his Constitution and his national socialism, otherwise known as Nazism. The supporters cheered. The protesters booed. The news clips told of ideological conflict...
...Society purportedly defends the interests of ethnic, racial, sexual and religious minorities, it is sickeningly ironic that they do so in a manner that mocks the millions, almost exclusively members of one or more of those minority groups, that suffered, bled and died under the systems of slavery and Nazism. To use flippantly the dead as a political device is to commit upon them a wrong as great, if not greater, than any attributed to Mansfield or Will. It undercuts the efforts of those who fight nobly for equality, and it dishonors us all. Jeremy R. Jenkins...
Their spin doctors and campaign managers will, of course, transmute personality into a kind of transcendence of politics. But that is an oxymoron. In democratic politics there is no such thing as political transcendence. That is the stuff of the romantic political extremism of Europe. Fascism, communism, Nazism offered politics as a passage to some higher reality. In democracies, and in particular in American democracy, life is more pedestrian. You offer your program, you make your case, you pass your legislation. The notion of rising above politics is either cynicism or sentimentality...
Nevertheless, one of art's iron laws is that sooner or later, what goes around comes around. And this show provides a moving record of Europe's reaffirmation of itself against terrible odds. The totalitarian regimes of the '30s-Nazism in Germany and Central Europe, Fascism in Italy, Stalinism in the Soviet Union-had wiped entire countries off the map of modernist culture. Though modernism had long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past...
Some have interpreted Oklahoma City as a kind of Reichstag fire, the rube militias being the embryos of an American Nazism. That is overheated; anyway, why go abroad for bad news? The real precedents are homegrown. Years ago, D.H. Lawrence, making his way through American literature, fell upon Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo and pronounced, "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." A fancy line, but true only of a certain whip-mean conscienceless strain in the American character. It is not a bad description of the Oklahoma City suspect's eyes...