Must Read – Especially Now
Do you think Ted Cruz sounds like a delusional lunatic? Do you, like me, sit slack jawed while listening to the nonsensical tirades of Screwy Louie Gohmert? Well, I’ve got a piece that will help you understand how we got here.
This is actually from last year, but I re-read this piece from the Washington Monthly and thought it would be a good reminder of how ultra-conservative ideologues went crazy, destroying politics in the US as we knew it. Most interesting? They did it by adopting tactics used by the Communists in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The result is that they have now vilified you, me, and everyone else with whom they disagree, using ever more desperate tactics as demographics and common decency move more and more against them.