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Pamela Geller and the Bloggers of Hate

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shutdown10/14/2010 10:13:49 am PDT

re: #25 Killgore Trout

I think the counterJihad bloggers affection towards Vlaams Belang and other Eurofascists was foreshadowing a larger change in the American Right. Nativists, White nationalists, neoConfederates and New World Order nuts are now openly embraced by American conservatives and nobody seems to complain about it.

The moderate electorate is still in denial, hoping this will all go away. I don’t know if it is better for them to be correct, reinforcing the innate political apathy of the centre, or if it would be of long term benefit for the Fringe Right and Palinistas to make inroads, and scare the centre back into political awareness.