Reason: The center’s paranoia is the most threatening
Politics • September 2009 • Views: 465
These days, commentators focus on “right-wing extremism” as the most dire threat to the nation. Politicians talk about the rise of racism in a country that just elected its first President with African heritage. Neither offer compelling definitions of the danger, and Jesse Walker of Reason explains that they have no compelling definition — only paranoia. The paranoia of the center, Walker argues, is much more dangerous, because it has the power to infringe on rights that the extreme right and left never have: