Harry’s Place Notices the Bloodbath
The increasing stridency of the US right is being noticed on the other side of the Big Pond: The Civil War On the U.S. Right.
With the defeat of Bush, the U.S. Right wing blogosphere has gone nuts, and have started to slaughter each other. It is a tragic sight, and not one in which we should take any pleasure.
None of this is surprising. Political parties are coalitions of interests. In the US Right, there are religious conservatives and humane fiscal conservatives and economic liberals. Bush’s Presidency bound them together. Now that Obama is president, those bonds are dissolving. What this has meant, is that the more eccentric elements of the conservative Right, free of any restraining propriety, have launched themselves into the void of silliness.
It isn’t confined to the blogosphere. I get the impression that this is what is happening generally, on the U.S. Right.
The lunacy is heterogenous. Some champion the theory that President Obama was born outside the U.S., which would - if true - make him ineligible to serve as President. Others are pushing the so-called ‘intelligent design’ fraud.
With a quote from yours truly, accompanied by this commentary:
Charles Johnson, who runs the website Little Green Footballs, has become a particular target for that faction of the U.S. Right. He has become increasingly outspoken against those who push ‘birth certificate‘ nonsense, or who pander to ‘intelligent design‘ nuts, and most of those who - like Rush Limbaugh - want Obama to fail…
(Hat tip: MJ.)
Frank says: