American Thinker Takeaways, July 17, 2026

One of the left's most common rallying cries is that Republicans, from Trump on down, are fascist. That's a slur going back to the end of WWII and bears no relationship to reality. The world is divided between totalitarian and liberty-centric political ideologies. Fascism and the American left are on the totalitarian side, and American conservatives come squarely down on the side of liberty.