re: #103 Charles Johnson

You don’t even want to look at the rest of her timeline today.

The wingnut brain virus is taking over these people.

Interestingly, that reminds me of a quote from William Shirer in Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

He noted that the Nazi ideology seemed to be spreading like a virus, particularly, the Nazi’s virulent anti-Semitism. Shirer stated that this anti-Semitism was already present, but the Nazis were acting like oxygen to a fire.

I think what we’re seeing is long-suppressed xenophobia and bigotry among a fairly broad segment of the white American population that now feels exceedingly comfortable in expressing their sentiments openly - and vocally.

If history is a precedent, it may not be much longer until those sentiments are expressed through physical violence against the targets of their hatred.