Not P but paranoia

[Mark Kohut]

yes, and name checks Pearlstein, parts of whose books I have read to
see this....Worth detailed understanding, he is.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
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