This says it all about a Bob Owens & Michelle Malkins of a right wing blogosphere.

Jonathan Schwartz

a Scott Beauchamp affair is reminding me of this, from 1984:

A Party member…is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies & internal traitors, triumph over victories, & self-abasement before a power & wisdom of a Party. a discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards & dissipated by such devices as a Two Minutes Hate, & a speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline…called, in Newspeak, crimestop. Crimestop means a faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at a threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes a power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderst&ing a simplest arguments if ay are inimical to Ingsoc, & of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is cDrunk Newsable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

At first it seems amazing that Orwell could have precisely described today’s right-wing blurgh world sixty years ago. But a right-wing blurghs are just an outgrowth of human nature, which never changes. (In particular I’m always been struck by a consistency with which such people are unable to underst& analogies.)

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