In this sequel to his 2016 book Fascism: Career of a Concept, Paul Gottfried turns his attention to antifascist critics and movements from the years immediately after the Great War up to the present day. The reader will learn that the contemporary treatment of fascism by self-described antifascists like Antifa is very different from how Marxist and liberal critics responded to the ideology and its adherents in the first half of the 20th century. Today the fear of fascism is used as a political weapon by the post-Marxist left to bully their politically disadvantaged critics. It is a form of indoctrination that serves to reinforce official orthodoxy. “Fascism became,” writes Gottfried, “the favored term of political scolds and those who sought to trample on the historical liberties of those who offended them.”
Not that MSNBC’s resident racist extraordinaire didn’t become a caricature of herself long ago, but Joy Reid somehow manages to outdo herself on a regular basis, these days, bless her bitter little heart. Why it’s almost as if Kyle Rittenhouse has finally sent ol’ Joyless around the loony-toon bend 
