Over the last sixty years or so, I see far more continuities than discontinuities in what the rightward twenty or thirty percent of Americans believe about the world. I’d argue, however, that they’ve been this crazy for a long time. Arizona Republicans push a bill to allow bosses to fire female employees for using birth control.Īnd so on and so forth, unto whatever wacky new wingnuttism just flashed over the wires today.īut are right-wingers scarier now than in the past? They certainly seem stranger and fiercer.
Only 12 percent of Mississippi Republicans believe Barack Obama is a Christian. One major Republican presidential candidate talks up indentured servitude - and another proposes turning schoolchildren into janitors. Politicians pledge allegiance to Rush Limbaugh, a pill-popping lunatic who recently offered “feminazis” a deal: “If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.” Thousands of “ Oath Keepers” - “ Police & Military Against the New World Order“- swear to disobey the illegal orders certain to come down the pike once Barack Obama institutes martial law.
Republican debate audiences cheer executions and boo an active-duty soldier because he is gay. It suddenly feels like conservatism has gotten crazier than ever.
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