D’Souza also made a slickly produced “documentary” pursuing this thesis further, titled Death of a Nation. Kruse and exposed as a risible fraud from start to finish-was in fact, as Douthat suggests, essentially a dumbed-down, frat-boy repackaging of Goldberg’s 2008 best-seller, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. D’Souza’s book The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left-which has been a bestseller, despite having been systematically dismantled by everyone from Ross Douthat to Mark Bray to Kevin M. From Charlottesville to Portland to Christchurch, we’re awash in the effects of a resurgent white nationalist movement that considers the “liberal smear” that fascism was a right-wing movement further evidence of a “cultural Marxist” campaign against white Western civilization. Perhaps, secondarily and more contemporarily, he’s been absorbing the derivative work of Dinesh D’Souza. Where would Bolsonaro get his ideas? He didn’t credit anyone, but the ultimate lineage of this idea really belongs to Goldberg. The museum he had just visited, however, is clear about the matter, telling visitors at its website that the German Nazi Party arose out of “radical right-wing groups” in Europe. He added that the appearance of the word “socialist” in the Nazis’ official party name proved it. He did: “There is no doubt, right?” he said to reporters.
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