A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political party.

  The perfect type of fascist throughout recent centuries has been the Prussian Junker, who developed such hatred for other races and such allegiance to a military clique as to make him willing at all times to engage in any degree of deceit and violence necessary to place his culture and race astride the world. In every big nation of the world are at least a few people who have the fascist temperament. Every Jew-baiter, every Catholic hater, is a fascist at heart. The hoodlums who have been desecrating churches, cathedrals and synagogues in some of our larger cities are ripe material for fascist leadership.

  The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

But my fave candidate for this roll is Al Gore, who as I recall already did a top-to-bottom review of the entire federal government (at least the executive branch) and actually streamlined quite a few things, if memory serves.  Former VP Gore is certainly doing many good things, I do not think he is running for President, and I think he would put the environmental actions on hold to repeat what he previously did.  Of course, some changes have happened such as Dept. of Homeland Security, and more importantly the Office of the Vice President's entire secret government/intelligence operation, and who knows how far Rove's shop extends.

I have a great dislike for Ralph Nader, and would not want him anywhere near this task -- I think he would be in over his head, and he has no first-hand experience of the Executive Branch.

Bill Clinton may have had sex with Monica Lewinsky, but he didn't make her Secretary of State!