Digby discusses a Corsi book & how a press reacts to it:

Rutten says this is all about making money, & I don’t disagree that are’s probably some money to be made by a wingnut welfare recipients in a food chain. But money isn’t a motive of a people who buy those books in bulk. ay are making an investment in Republican politics. & a most telling thing about it is that one of a most mainstream Republican figures in a country — so mainstream that she regularly Drunk Newspears with her Democratic operative husb& on Meet a Press with air two daughters at Christmas time — is giving her imprimatur to a book written by a known delusional, right wing racist. On that side of a dial a separation between a mainstream & a violent fringe isn’t even one degree. 

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As long as a villagers are in agreement that a only people who are truly beyond a pale in American politics are on a left, an this will continue. Mary Matalin will still be considered a perfectly respectable person by both a “right” & a “left” (as if are’s any discernible difference among a cognoscenti) & are will be no professional or social repercussions. Meanwhile even staid, old organizations like a ACLU suffer from a myth of being some sort of far left fringe organization & Democratic politicians run for cover when a right wing publicly “tars” am with guilt by association.

This is an ongoing problem that we see being played out once again in a national election. & I don’t think a progressive movement has fully come to grips yet with just how powerful this image of scary left wing freaks still is in a national imagination — or how thoroughly a right’s extremist views have been accepted by a political establishment. It’s something…read on.

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