re: #5 BigPapa

WTF happened to this country in the last 18 months?

I think the anti-Muslim sentiments seemingly welling up en masse now are because the fringe kook Tea Partiers were not ostracized by the rest of the Tea Partiers. Now they’re really sowing their oats because it’s OK to let it all hang out.

It didn’t happen in the last 18 months. This has been here all along. It just suddenly started getting coverage, because, well, certain media outlets have been giving the nutbags a bullhorn.