This was exactly Hitler’s argument – the hard response to the soft leftist Weimar Republic. Hitler too, like Solway, used the traitor idiom in identifying the true culprits – it was the socialists and liberals who were responsible for Weimar’s “sedative political philosophy” which resulted in “the loss of national identity” and the “steady advance of alien cultural norms and practices.” It was the right-wing, totalitarian Nazis who embraced the idea of state-sponsored Christianity who put things to right.
Can Solway not see how much he sounds like Hitler? It’s like watching a Nazi propaganda film. And yet somewhere on the left, instead of Solway being taken to task for sounding like Hitler, I will be scolded for pointing out that he does. Are we to be forbidden by left and right both from correctly identifying the forces at work in Western culture?
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