288 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographyopposition institutions by the fascist mass movement, the top-down dictatorship could never have
emerged. The view peddled by such figures as Olbermann is that fascism occurs when an
authoritarian government becomes more and more oppressive, until it can be called fascist. This is
completely anti-historical and fails to explain why a new term of fascism had to be coined just after
World War I.
In the United States today, the prevalent understanding of fascist ideology is impoverished in the
extreme. If people know anything at all about fascism, they are likely to think of Hitler, and to
define him as someone who was a dictator, an anti-Semite, a genocidalist, and a military aggressor.
But this leaves out the whole question of fascist ideology and of how a fascist movement could
exercise mass appeal and take power in the first place. One of the purposes of this book is to fill in
some of these blank spaces. Here we will be concerned with a few characteristic points of
traditional and typical fascist ideology as they are reflected in the speeches and activities of
Michelle Obama, who has emerged as a clear case of fascist ideology in her own right.
The Obamas are like a pair of onions: they have several layers of built-in deception, and several
of these layers must be stripped away to get anywhere near reality. But of the two, it is Michelle
who displays her ideology more openly. As the present writer concluded in January-February 2008,
and as the Jerusalem Post has noted more recently, Mrs. Obama’s ideology, as expressed on
numerous occasions and in various forms, is in a very strict technical sense fascism. Not fascism in
the sense of the all-purpose epithet thrown at adversaries by superficial media whores like
Olbermann, but fascism as the belief structure actually embraced and preached by fascist leaders
such as the young Mussolini between 1919 in 1922, when the fascist movements were just getting
started. It is in this sense that Mrs. Obama qualifies without any doubt as a fascist. We should also
take the warning of the Jerusalem Post quite seriously. There is no doubt that the Jews have
suffered greatly as a result of European fascism. We should therefore take such a warning
seriously, and carefully examine whether it is true. The finding here is that Michelle qualifies as the
most open fascist ideologue yet seen in an American presidential campaign. But since it is left
fascism, more like the young Mussolini rather than the mature and consolidated dictator, the left
liberals are quite incapable of noticing this critical fact.
MICHELLE OBAMA: BROKEN SOULS
The principal document illustrating Michelle Obama’s fascist world outlook is the standard
stump speech which she delivered during the primaries and caucuses of January and February in
particular. It was in this phase that the messianic and utopian elements of the Obama campaign
were most pronounced, and Michelle appears to have been encouraged to reveal at least something
of her actual worldview over audiences. Through her words, Michelle was doubtless
communicating strong elements of subliminal and subconscious irrationalism to the excitable
lemming legions and Kool-Aid cultists who were her audience. She was suggesting that Obama is a
far more irrational and anti-rational candidate than he can afford to admit in public, with vast
projects of world transformation and reform which could not yet be articulated. All of this could be
read into her constant references to “broken souls” that needed to be healed and made whole; this
was a construct into which individual listeners could project vast amounts of their personal fantasy
lives, and could imagine themselves emerging in the form of a new species of humanity. Some
might hear in Michelle’s standard remarks with the veiled promise that Obama is capable of
constructing a new world order in which instinctual repression will no longer be necessary, and
instinctual gratification will be immediately available — in other words, the eternal antinomian
promise to abolish the law and liberate the Freudian id. Exactly this has been the promise of the