The Whole Head Of The Fascist Party Thing Just Slipped My Mind

It seems like the only counter-argument Jonah Goldberg and his defenders are able to make at the skewering of Liberal Fascism: At Least 3 Mix-ins For My Cold Stone Pistachio Ice Cream is that people haven't even read the book. This is amusing in the light that Goldberg clearly hasn't read any of the primary source material in making his argument. Saying that you "made a flub" by not knowing why Mussolini was called a fascist, when he created the Fascist party, kind of undercuts any possible argument you could hope to make about fascism. Furthermore, looking past inconvenient quotes from Mussolini like this:

Granted that the 19th century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the 20th century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the “right”, a Fascist century.

And the fact that he murdered socialists and liberals in Italy tends to undercut, you know, this idea that he was a big ole socialist.

Somebody should probably invest in a library card and maybe a backpack for something other than midday snacks before he decides that OTHER people need to read his deeply serious argument that's never been made with such care.