Ultra Conservatism, Ultra Conservatives Quotes

Ironically, the fascist organizations that did form in America did just that. The American Firsters claimed patriotism motivated them to support Hitler and Father Coughlin and his fascist movement was his own version of Christianity—one which the Roman Catholic Church was so opposed to that they prohibited him from appearing on the radio with his virulent preaching. He was one of several who “hijacked” American Christianity not unlike the way radical Muslims would later in the century hijack Islam.

Since the early 20th century, conservatives have nominated candidates who were ideologically pure but so extreme that they offended too much of the electorate to get elected. Buckley advocated weeding these candidates out, His principle became very material in the early 21st century when the conservative fundamentalist Tea Party unseated strong conservative incumbents in primary elections in favor over more extreme conservative candidates who could not win general elections.

This may be one of the most anti-intellectual, anti educational statements made in the history of American campaigns. Santorum was one of 9 Republicans seeking the 2012 Presidential nomination. He was a favorite of the radical religious right which was an important constituency of the Republican Party at that time. The 9 candidates tried to outdo each other in how they could attack President Barack Obama, then running for a second term. While Obama had a very large percentage of Americans who “liked him” even when they disagreed with his policies, the right wing base of Republicans literally hated the man and would see evil in anything Obama did or said. One of the main positions of the President had been making college affordable for every American young person. Normally, this would be approved by almost all citizens and voters. However, this quotation illustrated the degree of hatred and paranoia. The audience, instead of laughing at the absurdity of Santorum’s accusation, roared its approval. There were not enough Republicans who shared the same degree of Paranoia about Obama, and Santorum was not elected as the nominee. There has always been in America a fundamentalist religious minority who feared college and higher eductation as not adhereing to the literal reading of The Bible, even when the colleges were Christian religious institutions which the early Ivy League colleges were: Brown, Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Columbia. As these schools have become secular, some religious fundamentalists opposed sending their children to them and saw the institutions in a negative light. Santorum’s constituency included those Americans.

Even the President was not spared during the McCarthy era. The red scare was so pervasive, that a lunatic fringe ultra right wing organization could call the President a “communist dupe” and be taken seriously be much of the media who were themselves intimidated and might be accused of being communists at any moment. It was a very low point in America’s history.

Short was a "Tea Party Republican" long before there was a Tea Party. He was a virulent opponent of FDR, the New Deal, and the Roosevelt Brain Trust. The anti intellectualism was even then not new. Long before Donald Trump and the Tea Party of 2016, there were conservatives who constantly attacked the unelected government appointees and Presidenial Advisors.

To modern Americans, this quotation is shocking. The thought that the United States Army could publish such a statement is hardly believable. Many first reactions assume that there was some mid level fascist officer in a training department which issued it. However this was not the case. It was issued in the name of the Secretary of War under the signature of Generals C.P. Summerall and Lutz Wahl, Chief of Staff and Adjutant General respectively. This document and others like it together with the views of pro fascist Americans like Henry Ford convinced Hitler and other European fascist leaders that America would not interfere with their designs on Europe.

The two young girls, 16 and 13, were in the background of the White House ritual Pardoning of a Turkey for Thanksgiving. Lauten, one of the extremist right wing hyper partisans of the day became the first political figure to attack the children who had been prior to that “out of bounds” even for the Tea Party Partisans. This attack was so petty and cruel that she was forced to resign the next day. However, many of the rabid Republicans reading the attack agreed showing how far the anti-Obama feeling had spread amongst some on the extreme right. Many other rightists condemned the attack as both immoral for attacking young children who really had no part in politics and incorrect and petty in her criticism. It was a time of hyper partisanship where any attack was a good attack, independent of whether or not it was true or justified.

The Tea Party, having had little success at the polls, tended to pick one element of government with most members and friends bashing that element blindly, like the blind-folded children at a Piñata Party. In this case it was the Export Import Bank that enabled over 250,000 jobs last year. The Tea Party which is always complaining about government spending, surprised most observers when they attacked the Export-Import Bank. It is one of the very few government agencies that costs the taxpayer nothing. As a matter of fact, it actually produces a profit for the taxpayer and reduces the deficit. See {640781}.

Some major celibrities like Charles Lindbergh were admirers of Hitler and other fascist leaders. There were even some American Fascist Organizations that overtly supported Hitler and Mussolini.

Left and right as political concepts are very subjective and relative. When Obama won the Presidency, the Republican Party and swung far to the right—so far that Rockefeller, Eisenhower and others would not be acceptable to the party. Most of the Republicans saw Obama as an extreme leftist while at the same time, most of the leftists in the Democratic Party like Reich were unhappy with Obama as he was too conservative—almost a Republican.

A Carlist Bishop founded the Society of the Exterminating Angel to absolutely oppose any constitution. Among the outdated views they held were the reestablishment of the Inquisition and the abolition of public education