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The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

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Jonah Goldberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 21
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Jonah Jacob Goldberg
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When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.
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Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.
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[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.
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Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.
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