American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America - Chris Hedges
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The f-word crops up in the most respectable quarters these days. Yet if the provocative title of this exposé by Hedges (War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning)—sounds an alarm, the former New York Times foreign correspondent takes care to employ his terms precisely and decisively. As a Harvard Divinity School graduate, his investigation of the Christian Right agenda is even more alarming given its lucidity. Citing the psychology and sociology of fascism and cults, including the work of German historian Fritz Stern, Hedges draws striking parallels between 20th-century totalitarian movements and the highly organized, well-funded “dominionist movement,” an influential theocratic sect within the country’s huge evangelical population. Rooted in a radical Calvinism, and wrapping its apocalyptic, vehemently militant, sexist and homophobic vision in patriotic and religious rhetoric, dominionism seeks absolute power in a Christian state. Hedges’s reportage profiles both former members and true believers, evoking the particular characteristics of this American variant of fascism. His argument against what he sees as a democratic society’s suicidal tolerance for intolerant movements has its own paradoxes. But this urgent book forcefully illuminates what many across the political spectrum will recognize as a serious and growing threat to the very concept and practice of an open society. (Jan. 9)
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“Chris Hedges may be the most credible figure yet to detect real-life fascism in the Red America of megachurches, gay-marriage bans and Left Behind books. American Facists is at its most daring when it enunciates…the perversities that are obvious to those of us not beholden to political exigencies.” — New York Observer
“Throughout, Hedges documents, and reflects on, what he feels is the bigotry, the homophobia, the fanaticism — and the deeply un-Christian ideology — that pose clear and present danger in our previous and fragile republic.” — O, the Oprah magazine
“This is a powerful book that looks inside some of the darkest movements on American soil.” — Time Out New York 5.0 out of 5 stars American Fascists May 21 2010
By Jonathan O’Mara
Format:Hardcover
An eye-opening account of how some Christian fundamentalist groups are punching above their weight, having infiltrated all levels of government. This book is not an attack on mainstream Christianity but is aimed rather at those fundamentalist types who are intent on pushing their version of morality onto the rest of the population, where there will be no room for other faiths, homosexuals, abortion, or even working women. It is a cautionary tale, a wake-up call. Well worth reading. 4.0 out of 5 stars Discerning book April 4 2012
By Chris Banner
Format:Paperback|Verified Purchase
This is a fascinating journey through the underbeely of US in which the author uncovers the horrifying strategies at loose within the evangelical movement. This book is an eye opener. I will never look at US politics quite the same way ever again. 4.0 out of 5 stars A wide-ranging fusilade against shearing Christian sheep Sept. 11 2007
By Brian Griffith TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover|Verified Purchase
We might assume that the right-wing Christian nationalist dream is waning in America, but Chris Hedges does not. Touring around the country he finds an undimminished movement for a full-blown theocratic state. As he quotes James Kennedy,
“Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As vice-regents of God, we are to execize godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports areanas, our entertainment media, our scientific endeavors — in short, over every aspect and institution of human society” (p. 58)
Hedges travels widely to hear great speakers, attend seminars and visit with radical fundamentalists. He offers some understanding, or perhaps pity, towards these people’s needs for order, direction, certitude and righteousness in a chaotic society. But this sympathy is limited by a conviction that these people are pushing his country towards totalitarian fascism. He notes that the Dominionist agenda calls for a restoration of harsh ancient laws from before the time of Jesus or of modern Judaism: the death penalty for adultery, homosexuality, blasphemy, incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the case of women, unchastity before marriage. Beyond this Hedges sees a regressive agenda to make Christianity more supportive of powerful economic interests:
“… When it is faith alone that will determine your wellbeing, when faith alone cures illness, overcomes emotional distress, and ensures financial and physical security, there is no need for outside, secular institutions, for social service and regulatory agencies to exist. … To put trust in secular institutions is to lack faith, to give up on God’s magic and miracles.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
April 28th, 2018
Excerpt: “… When it is faith alone that will determine your wellbeing, when faith alone cures illness, overcomes emotional distress, and ensures financial and physical security, there is no need for outside, secular institutions, for social service and regulatory agencies to exist. … To put trust in secular institutions is to lack faith, to give up on God’s magic and miracles.”
Is there any doubt that Chris has already hedged his bets and is unabashedly setting forth his personal opinions? It’s fine to be biased, and to even have a good tirade once in a while, but at least try to represent the opposition with a degree of honesty if nothing else.
September 7th, 2018
Hi, Any chance for a re-up? No seeds appear to be active. Thanks in advance. Cheers.
October 13th, 2018
If there is one person who’s “personal opinion” I will seriously consider, it is Chris Hedges. I do personally believe he has some distorted biases which emanate from his extreme experiences and observations: but on the other hand, he has seen much more than me in most areas of life, and his references are excellent, so I must consider that perhaps my own perspective is limited, and Hedges truth, while not complete, is deep.
April 27th, 2020
This books sucks. Usually I hang on to the good ones for a relisten or share later on. This got deleted as soon as I was finished.
He traipses through the wicked garden of ultra-Protestant weirdness. I was raised in an evangelical household myself. Personally I admire the historical achievements of European Christianity. Each group put its stamp on the religion. Roman Catholicism, Irish… The Orthodox are pretty interesting. Prots like my family are a product of the Anglo tendency to always break away and do their own thing. First it was the C of E, then the puritans and quakers. The baptists, eventually the mormons. All continuations of Anglo-Saxon culture. Hence, goofy AF.
If you really want to hear about some annoying Jesus freaks it’s in there, but otherwise this book has absolutely no cultural value.
I’ll still check out his other books. The author has some good insights on things, I’d rather hear his ideas on other stuff.
This is just kinda fake and gay.
February 1st, 2022
Nazism and fascism are “right wing” movements — the polar political opposites of socialism. Fascists and Nazis employ appeals to traditional morality to gain support. Progressives deplore fascism and always have. Fascists support capitalism. Trump is a fascist. These are aspects of “The Big Lie” that Dinesh D’Souza exposes in his recently released book.
The absurd claim that fascism and Nazism are not socialist movements owes it origin to the hideous reputations those leftist regimes earned after World War II. How could progressives expect to thrive in America if the Holocaust and other atrocities were linked to its political relatives? Consequently, a gigantic lie was perpetrated by leftist intellectuals and slavishly spread by a sympathetic media — namely, that fascism was a movement of the “far right” and that conservatives were also on “the right.” This “big lie” has long been a staple of Democrat propaganda and the basis for the absurd notion that President Trump is a fascist — not his violent, GOP-assassinating, speech-suppressing, “Antifa” opponents
Most conservatives are aware of links between fascism and socialism. After all, the term “Nazi” refers to a “National Socialist” party. What many of them, and certainly most Americans, don’t know, thanks to a mendacious media and institutions of advanced deception, are the countless ties (centralized government, racism, eugenics, state-sanctioned violence, and enforced cultural uniformity) that link fascists and even Nazis to the progressive movement.
Indeed, a mutual admiration relationship existed between Mussolini and FDR — a romance evidenced not only by a White House-organized ticker-tape parade for Mussolini’s aviation minister, but also by New Deal policies like the National Recovery Administration that effectively put the American economy under Roosevelt’s dictatorial control. Not surprisingly, a New York Times journalist praised FDR for following Mussolini’s example — though the Supreme Court, not yet cowed by FDR’s later fascistic court-packing threat, did not cheer this unconstitutional power grab.
In 1933, FDR himself said of Mussolini, “There seems no question he is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished…” Mussolini, for his part, was thrilled to be called “the Italian Roosevelt.” Even more surprising to Americans weaned on “the big lie” is the fact that Germany’s Nazi press frequently praised FDR in the early 30s. One magazine lauded “the fascist New Deal” in which the central government (as in fascism) exercised substantial control over “private” industry and finance.
Fascism itself, as D’Souza explains, arose due to the spectacular failure of Marx’s predictions about proletarian revolutions. Mussolini and Lenin, both Marxists, proposed different reasons for this failure, but both remained socialists dedicated to centralized government and totalitarian societies. Thus, the bloody feud between fascism and communism was an internecine war akin to the ongoing hostilities between Sunni and Shiite sects within Islam.
D’Souza’s work contains a fair amount of material also found in Jonah Goldberg’s less strident book, “Liberal Fascism” — especially information about the “proto-fascist” proclivities of the Constitution-despising Woodrow Wilson under whose resegregated regime the “domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party,” the KKK, reemerged in spectacular fashion. “The Big Lie,” however, goes beyond Goldberg by linking Progressivism to Nazism via their kindred eugenics-based racist beliefs. D’Souza notes, for example, that Hitler’s anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws were explicitly patterned after Democrat-instituted segregation and anti-miscegenation laws in the South and that progressives in America “outpaced the Nazis in initiating mass programs of forced incarceration and forced sterilization…”
D’Souza also fully addresses a question I posed to Mr. Goldberg after a book lecture in San Diego — to which question I received an unsatisfactory answer: “How did it come to pass that fascism is commonly called ‘right-wing’?” To this query “The Big Lie” provides a detailed response. The leftist historian Richard Hofstadter began this project by linking Social Darwinism in America to capitalism — thus transferring racist eugenics from its progressive spawning ground to the conservative “right.” Two Germans émigrés from the Marxist Frankfort School, Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno, subsequently developed the big lie that fascism wasn’t so much a political philosophy as a personality disorder associated with morally repressed conformists and traditional religious folk. In short, fascism became an “authoritarian” neurosis rooted in conservative sentiments.
Never mind that Hitler was a bohemian who despised Christianity, that Mussolini was an atheist, or that fascists hoped to create a new society filled with “supermen” and not suburbanites lounging in hot tubs. Ignore also the fact that fascism is a political philosophy with a background that’s been erased by the primary practitioners of the big lie — academia, the media, and Hollywood. According to D’Souza, fascism’s philosophical founder was Giovanni Gentile, an Italian who, like Mussolini after him, moved from Marxism to fascism. Most of Gentile’s program could easily be mistaken for any recent Democrat platform.
December 25th, 2024
“The absurd claim that fascism and Nazism are not socialist movements…” Thanks for writing this in the second paragraph. Saved me a lot of reading.
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