Fascism, rather than being a right-wing phenomenon as liberals are so fond
of claiming, is what underlies today's liberal agenda.
And it is borrowed lock, stock, and barrel from Benito Mussolini's fascist state and Hitler's National Socialism, says Jonah Goldberg author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.

As the publishers note, the Nazis were socialists who, unlike
conservatives, believed in free healthcare and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated
inherited wealth, spent vast sums on education, drove religion from the public
square replacing it with a new form of paganism, and inserted the power of
government into every nook and cranny of daily life.