Doughbob vs. Megan

Have you heard? They got into a huge spitball fight during lunch the other day. I think Doughy has a crush on Megan and doesn't know how else to get her attention.
Shorter Doughbob Loadpants: She didn't read the book, so she's a poopyhead, but there's some bits which I can interpret as sort of in agreement with me.
I'm actually kind of glad Gavin or Bradrocket will likely have their own take on this exchange at some point at S,N!, as it means I don't have to try to give Jonah's deluded ramblings extensive coverage. Fuck, he actually wrote this

Even today, "nationalist" and "socialist" are pretty much interchangeable terms.

I... that's above my pay grade. This is a good example of why I've only read about half of Jonah's book, and just can't finish it.
That said, Megan would certainly agree with this

... look at the Ivy League, look at Georgetown, look at the Ford foundation, public libraries, English departments, the mainstream media, museums, main line churches, the AMA, ABA and about a million other three letter acronymned organizations. These were all co-opted by the left to one extent or another and now they are part of a liberal gleichschaltung where political correctness rules and deviation from "progressive" ideas is increasingly treated as a thought-crime.

Megan might defend Ivy League English Departments, though she also effectively slanders them with her work, but she definitely sees a "liberal gleichschaltung" making academia a place unwelcome to people who make shitty arguments that run counter to basic empirical reality. Damned elitists.
And now, we come to Megan's response to Jonah's response to her non-review of a book she didn't read. Truly, a clash of titans. To begin, this might be the funniest and most unintentionally revealing sentence fragment Megan has ever written

Some of his argument is a misreading of my post, perhaps because I was unclear--when I said that

... alright, maybe it's not that funny, but Megan nicely saying Jonah misread and she was unclear strikes me as amusing.
And then comes this

I think Goldberg is actually making a valid point, which is that Fascism!=Conservatism. Fascism was a compendium of left and right wing ideology; part of what gave the movement its power was its co-option of (to my mind) some of the most appalling elements of each. The liberals who think that "Liberal Fascism" is somehow more definitionally stupid than "Conservative Fascism" are, I think, patting themselves on the back a little too hard. They didn't call themselves "National Socialists" for no reason, and pointing this out is, so far as I am concerned, God's work.

Lemme repeat part of that

They didn't call themselves "National Socialists" for no reason, and pointing this out is, so far as I am concerned, God's work.

Megan, despite.... reality, thinks Nazis were socialists. She doesn't truly disagree with Jonah so much as have muddled crackpot theories based on personal grudges of her own. To wit

But though I am very much all for the goal of stopping people from deploying the term fascist against any conservative they happen to disagree with--and particularly libertarians, who, will their horror of both state intervention in the economy and nationalism, are literally as far from fascism politically as it is possible to get--ultimately, I just don't like inflammatory titles. I find things like "a politics of meaning" creepy, but calling it fascist isn't going to do anything except give a flutter of satisfaction to people who already hate Hillary Clinton, and alienate her sympathizers.

Jonah's mistake is in writing the book from the perspective that it's movement conservatives who need defense from charges of fascism. This does not involve Megan, and thus is superfluous to... well, everything. Libertarians need to be defended from being called fascist, especially those who coincidentally happen to think corporations should be allowed to all but replace Federal governments. Besides, you risk alienating people you might otherwise fool.