From Wikipedia, quoting American historian Robert Paxton’s latest book, Anatomy of Fascism (emphases mine):
…a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, [...]
Maybe Chuck Grassley can use the money he’s going to be slicing out of poor people’s health care subsidies to buy himself some vowels.
Maybe the only way for Democrats to be as effective in turning out their base is for their ideological (not political) leaders to whip up their core voters into the same state of perpetual victimhood that Republican leaders have been fomenting for the last 16 years (“The liberal media! The liberal media!”). Even if it’s [...]
Sanford in 2012? He could run on a platform of experience in foreign relations.
I guess in this case, the kettle is actually a black dude. Karl Rove accuses Obama of running a permanent campaign in the White House:
Team Obama is suffering from Extended Campaign Syndrome. In an election, campaign staffers are often just trying to survive until the next week or the next primary. They cut corners because [...]
Yesterday, Arlen Specter took a beating at his town halls. I think the actions of his enraged constituents continue to support the hypothesis that they are not so much against health care, as they are against Barack Obama, no matter what he does. From the article, quoting the leader of the local Tea Party Blaggers:
“We [...]
I completely agree with the Republicans. Government officials should not insert themselves between a doctor and a patient’s family when it comes to end-of-life discussions.
From crazy Russian dentist-realtor-lawyers melting down on cable TV, to people who don’t know what the word “fascist” means, but think the word sounds cool, to walking examples of Godwin’s Law, the public discourse, at least as portrayed in the media, has become irrational to the point where it can no longer be fairly called [...]
The Senate recently narrowly defeated a gun law amendment that would have allowed concealed-carry permits to be valid in any location, regardless of where they were issued, effectively gutting state and local gun laws. First of all, federalism in gun laws is really the only sensible position for a country that contains both Montana and [...]