The Real Liberal Terror

Jeffrey Lord at The American Spectator writes about liberal reactions to conservative minds. As an example, he notes the following book review:

"The book is one which has the glow and appeal of a fiery cross on a hillside at night. There will undoubtedly be robed figures who gather to it, but the hoods will not be academic. They will cover the face," snarled one, ominously comparing it to a work of the Ku Klux Klan. "This fascist thesis," angrily spluttered another, "...This...pure fascism....What more could Hitler, Mussolini, or Stalin ask for...?" Still others piled on. The book was dismissed as a series of "fanatically emotional attacks" that "succeeded in turning the stomachs of its readers." The author drew howls of outrage, the lesser of which focused on adjectives like "rude" and "obnoxious" before descending into cries of "fascist."

These comments sound like the recent attacks on Ann Coulter (whose book is #1 at Amazon), but they were actually the 1951 reactions to William Buckley's, "God and Man at Yale."