
Very importantly, (and I can’t believe I have to explain this, either) conservatism is not Nazism. American politics, in particular, has fallen into talking about “The Left” and “The Right” as though these were two monolithic blocks which somehow describe the spectrum of belief — lumping everyone from Hillary Clinton to Bobby Seale on the one side, and everyone from Mitt Romney to Richard Spencer on the other. And since Nazism has risen alarmingly on the far right, around the world — you may recognize some o…