Liberal fascism.

Mark Steyn on totalitarianism:

Socialism does not inevitably lead to National Socialism, but in the early thirties statism of one degree or another — Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism — was all the rage, and liberal democracy was assumed by all the great thinkers to be inadequate as an organizing basis for society. If you're lucky, the totalitarian turn-on extends only to the "great thinkers," from H.G. Wells arguing for a non-democratic "world state" run by scientists and technocrats to Kevin Spacey, Sean Penn and the other Hollywood big shots squealing orgasmically through their photo-ops with Hugo Chávez ("I'm a fan," Oliver Stone told him). Even when they're not in thrall to the personality dictators, a big chunk of Western elites have a strange yen for the sterner ways of distant cultures, from Hillary Clinton's Hallmark sentimentalization ("It Takes A Village," etc.) of a tribal existence that's truly nasty, brutish and short to Germaine Greer's more explicit defence of "female genital mutilation."

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