A New Birth of Freedom (2)

"Jaffa’s Hitlerian Defense of Lincoln" de Thomas DiLorenzo:

In his book, A New Birth of Freedom, Harry Jaffa begins the second chapter with a quotation of Adolph Hitler taken from a book authored by Hermann Rauschning in which Hitler supposedly said that after the Southern states were conquered in America "the beginnings of a great new social order based on the principle of slavery and inequality were destroyed" .... Why interfere with the man when he is busy placing his own foot in his mouth?

But on a second thought, I recalled that Hitler himself was rather a fan of highly centralized government and a fierce opponent of state sovereignty .... Hitler was a consolidationist .... Hitler understood all too well that the surest way to establish dictatorial government was to concentrate power at the center ....

Hitler mocked what he called "so-called sovereign states" in Germany because they stood in the way of a centralized Reich with their "impotence" and "fragmentation." Such impotence and fragmentation of government was purposely designed by some of the American founders precisely because they wanted to limit the powers of the central government.