Just a few months ago, your position on this would have been held by virtually every conservative, certainly every libertarian thinker in the country. That is a leftest argument, but we are hearing it now from the right. The open embrace of using coercive government power to punish your enemies and reward your friends,. regardless of o private property or free speech rights. Is that faschism? Is it a form? Is it semi fashism? I think there are worrying signs here.
Elements on both the left and right are tracking in the same illiberal direction on economic regulation, the First Amendment, and on radical rhetoric. Plus, the NatCons’ plan to get the country to go full Trump. Stephanie Slade joins Charlie Sykes today.