Question for Jonah Goldberg (3)

Devil take the hindmost. Despite what Ezra Klein argues well, I'm still going to give Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism free publicity.

And so, the setup for today's Question For Jonah Goldberg:

It is the summer of 1968. In July and August, a group of right-wing Cuban exiles firebombed the publisher of the diary of Che Guevara--the thirteenth anti-Castro bombing in New York since April--along with the British consulate in Los Angeles, the Mexican government's tourist office in Chicago (twice), and a British cargo ship in Miami Harbor. On August 13, state troopers uncovered a half ton of dynamite, automatic weapons, tear gas, and crates of ammunition in Johnsonburg, New Jersey belonging to the group "Cuban Power." Eleven days later, in Connecticut, members of the anti-Communist vigilante group the Minutemen invaded a pacifist farm in Voluntown in an attempt burn it down, then shot it out with state police in a fracas that ended up blinding one of their members. One of the pacifists told the New York Times"I think all of us would rather see our place burned down than to see a Minuteman blinded," a pacifist told the New York Times. A local, less conciliatory, said, "I see them come to the post office. They're a cruddy bunch. They don't wash up and shave."

And the Question:

Please, Jonah, so we can better understand where you are coming from, rate on a scale of 1 (not fascist at all) to 10 (totally fascist!) the following individuals: (a) the Cuban vigilantes; (b) the Minutemen vigilantes; (c) the pacifist who'd rather lose his home than harm another soul; (d) the local who thought the pacifists had it coming because of their grooming habits?

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