I have argued long and hard with leftwing Jews who just refuse to believe that anything of the sort could happen in America. They oppose the teabags, and surely they think all the parallels I cite are valid, but they feel my concerns are too extreme. They like to quibble about little philosophical differences between the historical Nazis and the current American manifestation of a proto-Nazi movement. They want to believe that something like that can’t happen here.

I’ve had the same experience. I’ve been trying to cover Glenn Beck and the movement he’s trying to create and alot of people who are generally left-wing said, “Sure, there’s always extremes.” I don’t think people want to accept how far in to the nether region the Right is delving.