re: #46 SanFranciscoZionist

I don’t think the folks who’ve been crazy would be substantially less crazy if Hillary were president, no, or even if a white man had taken it. The racial stuff stands out very starkly, but I think the hatred is the hatred of what the Democrats are imagined to represent.

I have to disagree, because I don’t think I have ever seen the right wing this crazed in my entire life. There’s always been a right wing fringe, and there’s always been a lot of hate directed at Democratic Presidents, but the level of sheer unhinged conspiracy theorizing and openly expressed racism is way beyond anything I’ve seen before. Fringe ideas have completely taken over the GOP.

I have to ask what it is that’s driven them so insane with rage and hatred, what’s so different about Barack Obama - and it’s not his policies or politics. The election of Barack Obama has brought a long-suppressed but still powerful strain of right wing racism bubbling up to the surface.