Dumbest Thing Glenn Reynolds Has Said in a Few Days

And that's saying something, because this pro-Bush pro-war pro-fessor pro-duces idiotic blog entries at a fantastical rate. His Instapundit is updated almost as often as this blog, if you can imagine such a thing.

So, anyway, here's one of the many dumb things Glenn Reynolds said:

There was a time when the Left opposed fascism and supported democracy, when it wasn't a seething-yet-shrinking mass of self-hatred and idiocy. That day is long past, and the moral and intellectual decay of the Left is far gone.

Okay, this guy is a professor, right? So, he understands that fascism would be an extreme growth out of the far right of the political spectrum, and not the left...Communism would be the example of an extreme left-wing movement. Therefore, by definition, The Left opposes fascism.

But let's look at the point he's getting it. Because leftists in America right now oppose George W. Bush, we're pro-fascism. Is he projecting? People who didn't want to remove the leader of another country and then go to war with them, only to hold bogus elections to install a puppet regime, are fascist? What about the party that conducts all its business in secret, while spending more than any other administration in American history on propaganda? That's not fascist? Huh?

And any time you accuse another group of people of "moral and intellectual decay," your hysteria betrays your message. Please, people, if you read a political columnist using this sort of heated terminology, tune out. It means they don't have anything real to say, and are hoping to use flowery, overstated rhetoric to convince you of the depth of their reasoning.

(And my thanks to MaxSpeak for the link!)