Ann Althouse On Michelle Goldberg's TDS

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     Goldberg's most facepalmerific claim is, basically: the only way to save yourself from the hysterical, Trump-induced agony that's undoubtedly gripping you is: volunteer for the Democrats.

   The most embarrassing bit of the article, though, is that she takes Jason Stanley seriously; specifically:

In his recent book “How Fascism Works,” the Yale professor Jason Stanley wrote that patriarchy is “strategically central” to fascist politics, which always seek to cement racial and gender hierarchies. “When women attain positions of political power usually reserved for men — or when Muslims, blacks, Jews, homosexuals, or ‘cosmopolitans’ profit or even share the public goods of a democracy, such as health care — that is perceived as corruption,” he wrote. That sentence encapsulates how Trump, the most corrupt president in American history, sells himself as corruption’s opponent.

How--and this is a serious question--are you going to have a serious conversation about such things with a person who would write--or quote--something like that with a straight face?