After reading ABL’s post on the new front in the Global War Against Women and Zandar’s post on the sad-sack establishment pearl-clutching over the Evil of leaking a few documents from a right-wing propaganda outfit, I feel compelled to come out with something that’s been on my mind for a while: I view the American right in more or less exactly the same way that the American right views (or viewed, they probably have new Hitlers by now) “the Islamofascists”.
I don’t mean everyone on the right here. I don’t mean Mitt Romney but I do mean Rick Santorum. I don’t mean Kathleen Parker but I do mean Charles Krauthammer. I don’t mean Matt Welch but I do mean Charles Murray.
In my professional opinion, a certain segment of the right hates us for our freedoms, and would round all of us up and send us to re-education camps (or worse), given the chance. And, yes, the way the right views the decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts as the nation’s fifth columnists, I view tote-baggers as the left’s fifth columnists.
I’m not suggesting that the left adopt the tactics the American right favors in its struggles — no bombing, no torture, no wire-tapping, please. But leaking a few documents from the Heartland Institute? ‘Bagger, please.