Liberal Fascism
If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
4.6 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The EQ for this show is different than the one for 5.4 so you're like 6% sexier on this show. |
| 0:04.6 | That's all me. You're welcome, Peter. |
| 0:06.3 | I've never had a girl like email the 5.4 podcast saying that they have a crush on me, |
| 0:11.6 | but it's happened like twice now. |
| 0:13.1 | And every single one of our reviews is like, who's this sexy guy and why is the woman he's with? |
| 0:18.0 | So hysterical. These are the comments that I get on the internet. |
| 0:21.3 | Who's that sexy jock and his data obsessed female friend? |
| 0:25.3 | Okay, tell me if this zinger is bad. |
| 0:31.3 | All right. Michael. |
| 0:33.3 | Peter. |
| 0:34.1 | What do you know about liberal fascism? |
| 0:36.6 | Is that the kind where there are mass graves, but they're only full of gas stoves? |
| 0:55.6 | Have you ever seen the cover of this book? |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, God, isn't it like the the smiley face with like a Hitler mustache? |
| 1:02.6 | That is right. |
| 1:03.5 | Ooh, I gotta say it was a good idea. |
| 1:06.2 | It stops being good after the cover, but the cover kind of rules I have to admit. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, it's a smiley face with a little Hitler mustache and that is Jonah Goldberg, the author, |
| 1:17.4 | telling you that liberal fascism is sort of fascism with a polite face. |
| 1:24.5 | Fascists are known for being like too nice, too accepting. |
| 1:28.5 | Now, this book in the broadest strokes is about how it's actually liberals who are kind of fascists |
| 1:34.4 | and not just that, but fascism itself is a liberal project more than a conservative one. |
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