Born in 1891 in Hamilton, Ontario, and ordained in 1916 as a priest in the social justice–minded Basilian Order, Coughlin was sent in 1926 to the small parish o

Born in 1891 in Hamilton, Ontario, and ordained in 1916 as a priest in the social justice–minded Basilian Order, Coughlin was sent in 1926 to the small parish of Royal Oak, Michigan, a predominantly Protestant suburb outside of Detroit. Yes, this is true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Justice_(periodical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Justice_(periodical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_for_Social_Justice_(organization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_for_Social_Just... The overlap in names between Coughlin's authoritarian-right movement and today's increasingly authoritarian-left version may at first seem like a mere coincidence, but my view is that this is reflective of a deep epistemological commonality between these views. Despite the surface-level political differences, which amounts to disagreement on who to scapegoat and which group should wield increasingly authoritarian power over others, they are not very different. From where does this commonality stem? German philosophers, including Kant, Hegel and Marx (among many others) created the intellectual conditions within German society that made both the Weimar Republic and its collapse into Hitler's Nazi Germany inevitable, as documented in this book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530716/the-cause-of-hitlers-germany-by-leonard-peikoff/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530716/the-cause-of...