Arlen Specter Quotes

Moderates behind whom Red Fascism spreads.

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

This country is going so far right you are not even going to recognize it.

Let no one say ... that radicalism is the exaggeration of liberalism; no, it is its antipodes, its extreme opposite. Radicalism is nothing more than an exaggeration of despotism; and never has despotism taken a more odious form.

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

I'm going to tell you, what's good for al Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party in this country today.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

Anti-Americanism is a form of Fascism.

There are some Republicans in Congress who have leaned so far to the right, that they could fall out of the Capitol.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.

There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.

It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.

When the National Front was created, its main goal was against communism.

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is picking up a very different demographic than it used to, a less well-educated demographic of people who are more prone to authoritarianism.

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'

We have already seen ISIS use Donald Trump in their propaganda directly. I mean, I will go so far as to say Donald Trump is the ISIS candidate.

Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the 1920s, when people are starving, suddenly makes 'populist' answers and scapegoating different groups as the source of the problem much more appealing.

The radical Left wants control over the lives of the American people and will sink to any depths to get it.

It annoys me right-wing extremism is not equated to Islamic extremism.

Russia has taken advantage of its exalted status among right-wing extremists to expand its influence throughout Europe.

I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics.

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.