I've Heard of Rockefeller Republicanism. I've Never Heard of Rockefeller Fascism...
Yes, they are very odd ducks over at National Review:
@mattyglesias Love the ellipses. James Burnham was also NR's most avid fan of Nelson Rockefeller and a defender of the welfare state.
— Reihan Salam (@reihan) September 20, 2012
Back in 1975, James Burnham's praise of Franco included the marvelous claim that:
The whole concept of "fascism" for that matter has been a fraud from the beginning. Like "peaceful coexistence" and "detente," it is a tactical invention of the Soviet Agitprop, and boils down in practice to the simple definition: fascism is any regime that outlaws Communism…
