Hearing more than one wingnut now taking the line that no doubt will be on Limbaugh’s lips tomorrow: “Apartheid was gonna fall, Mandela had nothing to do with it!” And that may very well be true, but it’s a half-truth at best. The reality likely would have been that, in absence of Mandela, apartheid would have ended with a violent and bloody revolution. There would have been no negotiated end, no unified elections that put a cool-headed and even-handed man in office. Just a lot of shooting, piles of bodies, and a new leader who likely would have follow Mugabe’s footsteps in “punishing” the Afrikaners in the most inhumane fashion possible.