It seems totally uncontroversial to call the extreme right wing what it is. This isn’t “guilt by association” at all. Any political orientation, when taken to an extreme, leads to this kind of hatefulness and — by definition — extremism.

There are extreme left-wingers, and there are extreme right-wingers. Often they meet at the far edges of totalitarianism, and that’s what we’re seeing with Cynthia McKinney.

Denying the existence of an extreme right wing is ridiculous, and simply wrong. And it’s a waste of energy that would be much better spent in denouncing these kinds of creeps, even when they’re “right wing” — rather than denying they exist.