Having recently finished reading The Ominous Parallels, I can now say that the book’s main premise is that the reason for Hitler’s rise to power was that in Weimar Germany even the so-called “Right”, the so-called “Conservatives”, had succumbed to what Thomas Sowell would call “The Vision of the Anointed” by accepting the philosophy of the times, which said that capitalism and individual freedom were evil.
The antidote, in Leonard Peikoff’s opinion, is the philosophy of Objectivism; he seems to think that neither Constitutional principles nor religion and morality can stop a civilization’s slide into statism and, in fact, blames religion for helping to cause this trend.
As I have said earlier, I don’t agree with his criticisms of Christianity, preferring instead to believe that the animating principles of Christianity are responsible for the rise of Western civilization in the first place and, if followed, will allow Western civilization to continue to prevail.
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