Every time a Democrat wins the Presidency you get the same historical myopia: "they are the same angry, ill-informed, overwhelmingly white, crypto-corporate paranoiacs that accompany every ascendancy of liberalism within U.S. government."
The same “spontaneous eruption” of folks never before engaged in politics. The same blithely narcissistic presumption that the vast majority of Americans (or, at least, “ordinary Americans”) must already agree with them, and incredulity that anyone might not grasp the depth of the peril.
The shrieking from the Right will always be there just like when Kennedy, Carter and Clinton were Presidents. Thinking they have something important and useful to say, or that bipartisanship or a consensus is even an option for them, is to dream the impossible dream.
Even the lunatic persecution fantasies are the same: "In Robert Welch’s 1961 it was probable internment camps for conservatives. In Glenn Beck’s 2009 it was … probable internment camps for conservatives."
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