Goldberg is a political journalist, not a historian, and readers more familiar with the ideological twists and turns of the
modern era will be familiar with his
thesis: While the left has long depicted the right as fascist, it is in fact the left — from Hegel to Hitler to Hillary and, yes, the politics of meaning, too — that follows the fascist formula most influentially articulated by Mussolini: «Everything within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state.»