ABSTRACT
In the United States, this manifestation of fascism has been embodied in the person of McVeigh and more broadly in the Patriot movement. As Griffin suggests, this groupuscular form appears to pose little threat, but it remains latent and is capable of wreaking serious havoc. The most notable being the anti-immigrant Minuteman movement, which provides a case study of how proto-fascism, through mainstreaming, becomes para-fascism. The coup de grace came when Jonah Goldberg devoted nearly 500 pages in his book Liberal Fascism to selling the up-is-down notion that fascism is "a phenomenon of the left". This fist-shaking style of political discourse, in fact, was one of the real hallmarks of fascism. It signaled, above all else, the right-ness of power by virtue of it being used to intimidate and silence dissenters. To the fascist leader, diplomacy is a parlor game for the weak; what counts is the raw will of the man of action.
