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Country First: A Fascist Idea?
Outside The Beltway | OTB — Country First: A Fascist Idea? [image] Jim Henley makes an interesting observation about a repeated line from John McCain’s acceptance speech that was the them of this year’s Republican National Convention:“Country First” is a fascist idea. There ought to be a fairly large number of people, things and groups that are more important to you than your “country.” While hyper-nationalism is a key component of fascist ideology, it doesn’t follow that loyalty to country is fascist.  McCain isn’t advocating blind obedience to government authorities.  Rather, ...

In Defense of Country First
Matthew Yglesias — Jim Henley doesn’t like McCain’s slogan: Oh by the way: “Country First” is a fascist idea. There ought to be a fairly large number of people, things and groups that are more important to you than your “country.” In his defense, whether or not there ought to be a bunch of things that are more important to me than my country, I think it makes a lot of sense for me to want a President who’ll put country first. You wouldn’t want top government officials to, for example, still ...

Friday Woody Guthrie blogging
Crooked Timber — Jim Henley writes : Oh by the way: “Country First” is a fascist idea. There ought to be a fairly large number of people, things and groups that are more important to you than your “country.” Well, as a Brit, I oughtn’t to intrude, but I can report that within seconds of reading Jim’s post, a certain Woody Guthrie song was going through my head …..