Leave it to Frank Rich to articulate many of my own thoughts throughout last week much better (or at least with less extraneous profanity) than I did.
"The biggest contributor to this resurgence of radicalism remains panic in some precincts about a new era of cultural and demographic change. As the sociologist Daniel Bell put it, “What the right as a whole fears is the erosion of its own social position, the collapse of its power, the increasing incomprehensibility of a world — now overwhelmingly technical and complex — that has changed so drastically within a lifetime.”
The New York Times: "The Guns of August" by Frank Rich/8.22.09
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