The Last True Fascist

Michael Ledeen and the "left-hand path" to American Fascism

I will give my critics this: One blind spot in my writing on American fascism is an excessive focus on the paleoconservatives. On the one hand, it makes a lot of sense to focus on the paleocon faction: they represent a tradition that self-consciously goes back to the Nazi-sympathizing America First movment, in their ranks include notorious antisemites a…