Another dispatch from the Republican Meltdown.
Remember those rightwinger militias in the 90s who were convinced Bill Clinton was coming after them in black helicopters filled with jackbooted thugs, their hysteria culminating in the Oklahoma City Bombing by radical rightwinger Timothy McVeigh?
Glenn Greenwald notes that after eight years of silence while George W. Bush ate up and shit out the Constitution, they’re getting hopped up on the crazy after four weeks of Obama. While it sounded mostly like racist fever during the McCain/Palin hate rallies, this clip from the Glenn Beck show seems to indicate that it’s time to start target practice and ATF/FBI raid drills…
It’s really hard to overstate Glenn Beck’s state of panic here. Just imagine if the Obama administration, instead of monitoring peace groups, returned to the Clinton practice of monitoring groups of angry gun-hoarders preaching violent overhaul. Glenn Beck and every other right winger would swear they’re next (what do you think the Fairness Doctrine hyperventilating is about?), and the cacophony will escalate to violent proportions all over again.
But as Greenwald points out, it’s much less a phenomenon of issues, but rather Republican dead-enders who would have cheered the Bush administration towards full-blown fascism, but who boil and seethe at the thought of a Democrat behind the wheel. Make it Barack Obama’s smiling “Halfrican” mug, and you get all the oomph of white rage locked and loaded for another eight years.
Somehow, though not easily, we will be free of this cult of idiots. After all, how many people can avoid laughing or swishing bile in the back of their throat while watching Glenn Beck?
-jb
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