How Crazy Is Too Crazy? Reprise 0
Michael Tomasky, writing at the Guardian, compares the US political climate in the Sixties with the climate today. Some nuggets (I couldn’t narrow it down to just one):
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Now we have a radical movement, a wing of which is directly threatening violence not just against members of Congress, but in general, with this talk of insurrection and civil war we hear emanating from some quarters. And the courageous response of the GOP has been to put a narrow amount of “space” between the insurrectionists and themselves, but only when pressed to do so by the media.
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This is twisted. You have a group of people who, unhappy with a legislative outcome legitimately reached by duly elected people, think it’s somehow their “right” to call that oppression and threaten violence. They are people, let’s be blunt, who know nothing about history and political thought.
