Not P but paranoia

[David Morris]

I guess the crucial point Pierce makes is that the Republican Party built
this present monster from the ground up.  It didn't happen spontaneously.
It was carefully cobbled together and nurtured into it's present madness.

David Morris

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:06 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today Charles Pierce described that long march succinctly:
>
>
> http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a33766/everything-in-moderation/
>
>  It began with the [Republican Party's] decision to side with the
> remnants of American apartheid. It continued with the decision to ally
> itself with the most virulently retrograde elements of American
> Protestantism. It was energized by the tragic historical truth that this
> stuff is an effective means of gaining political power. The thinking became
> more and more magical. The rhetoric became more and more unhinged. The
> willingness of the Republican party to tolerate an almost limitless amount
> of sheer public lunacy has led us to this moment, where the only answer
> Santorum dares give to a woman who believes the president intended to nuke
> an American city was to say that he wasn't in Washington at the time.
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ah, the confident clinical detachment of 1964, when a liberal academic
>> firmly planted on New Deal and Great Society could see Birchers and White
>> Citizens' Councils and the Goldwater movement as a passing fever, rather
>> than the beginnings of a long march. I can tell my sons that the mainstream
>> Republican rhetoric of today would have been "lunatic fringe" fifty years
>> ago, and I can see they don't quite believe it because hey, progress, right?
>>
>> ALL of P's California books remind us that San Narciso and Vineland and
>> Gordita Beach are just down the road from Orange County.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I actually believe, based on nothing substantial, that this piece and
>>> the subsequent
>>> book did influence the young Thomas. Crying of Lot 49 mostly, what
>>> with the John Birch
>>> allusions and so much conspiracy drumming.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Fatso Judson <blicerosboy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
>>> > -
>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
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