Playing With Fire?


Atrios suggests that the "conservative crackup" many on the left are eagerly anticipating needs for the crack-pots to be kept front and center in the nation's consciousness.

He writes:

The only we we'll get a massive conservative crackup is if they spend the next 18 months pushing Schiavo-esque issues onto the media and the rest of us. But, I think their recent behavior in the Schiavo case, and the probability that DeLay will cling to power for at least a few more months will lead enough people to decide enough is enough. They could still recover entirely from this if they do a 180 and send Randall Terry packing for awhile, but I don't think he's going anywhere. This is actually one place where CNN's (and others) complete deference to these wingnuts might actually be advantageous. Maybe we should write and suggest Mr. Terry gets his own show.

This may be playing with fire, however. I hate to jump on the current bandwagon of drawing parallels with Weimar Germany (most of which I think are unwarranted), but plenty of leftist Germans thought the same thing about Adolf.

We need to watch the public opinion climate carefully in the coming months, to make sure that the American public really is as turned off as it seems to be by Messrs. DeLay, Terry, and company.

Posted: Sun - April 3, 2005 at 04:17 PM           | |


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