And Wolf has forthrightly said she’s making "a conservative argument." Bush, though it should be noted that since the books were published, she’s extended her critique to the Obama administration too. In that book, Give Me Liberty, and a companion manifesto, The End of America, Wolf calls for a popular uprising against American authoritarianism-against, indeed, a "fascist shift," which she identifies with the administration of George W. The author of a number of well-regarded books taking strong feminist positions, and a former consultant to the Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, Wolf has now joined people like Alex Jones, a fringe-right talk-radio host, Ron Paul, the hyper-libertarian member of the House, and many of the members of the Tea Party movement in embracing what she calls, in her most recent book, "absolute liberty." "I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice," said Senator Barry Goldwater, the great 1960's movement conservative, and Naomi Wolf would agree. Bush administration, that Tea Party movement, that Occupy Wall Street?Īnyway, adapted from a deleted section on Naomi Wolf and the American founding, from 2012: Alex Jones and “Russia Today” (RT) are better known now than when I wrote this, and hey, how about that George W. founding, which is what I was writing about it at the time.Ī lot of what's below feels strange to me now, looking back through Trump. Strangely enough, perhaps, the excerpt has mainly to do with Wolf's views of the U.S.
For background, I paste below something I wrote about her efforts way back in 2012, which was (wisely) cut out of a longish essay I published that year in Boston Review.
Some observers have been wondering how Wolf could have made what seems an abrupt switch to the anti-Biden narratives of Carlson and Fox. Their claim that the pandemic is a pretext for a fascist shift rang a bell with me, because nearly ten years ago, Wolf was on the radio with the right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones, sounding the same kind of alarm over the same kind of imminent takeover, though under different pretexts.
The author and public intellectual Naomi Wolf recently appeared on the right-winger Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show-she was billed as a representative of Democratic Party progressivism-to inveigh against what she and Carlson call a scheme to bring totalitarian dictatorship to the United States via government COVID policies.
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