The Nazification of the American Left by Paul R. Hollrah

For most of World War II, and before, the German people had access to just one newspaper and one radio station. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also saw to it that Germans had little choice in radio equipment. The only radio set available to them was the Volksempfänger, designed to receive only local broadcasts. It insured that Nazi propaganda broadcasts could be heard, while other media, such as the BBC, could not. Sound familiar? Given their desire to censor, even to prohibit, conservative speech, it is clear that American liberals are much more in tune with Goebbels than with our cherished First Amendment rights. Their physical assaults on conservative speakers on college campuses, the institutional bias against conservatives in public broadcasting, the concerted effort to staff mainstream media with none but liberal writers and commentators, their threat to destroy conservative talk radio, and much more, are all reminiscent of tactics employed by the Sturmabteilung (SA), also known as the “Brownshirts,” in Hitler’s pre-war Germany.

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