Of David Niewart and occupying "political spaces"

As I've begun to observe the impressive wagon-circling of the Left related to Liberal Fascism, I came across this repetitive, verbose post from David Niewart in which he claims that Jonah Goldberg has refused to respond to his argument all along(!!!) that Fascism occupied the political space opposite of the Left.  ("Jonah Goldberg is a very sad case who thinks that ignoring an argument makes you smarter" | Crooks and Liars).

But nestled in a hefty box quote from Paxton was this jewel:

Prime Minister Giolitti, a true practitioner of laissez-faire liberalism, declined to use national forces to break strikes. The big farmers felt abandoned by the Italian liberal state.

Wait a minute; there was a classical liberal prime minister in Italy at the time that Mussolini won the struggle with other socialists for power?

But it is interesting that even in laying out his unrebutted(!!!) thesis, Niewart acknowledges that Italian (and German) Fascist movements were rooted in socialist/communist ideals though they feigned capitalist or other sympathies to achieve their purposes. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, that strategy is rather similar to policy initiatives like current first steps of incrementalist reform (here) on health insurance.