As we’ve discussed here on many occasions, American right-wingers seem eager to discard our messy democratic traditions in favor of clean, simple totalitarianism.
Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
Does anyone doubt that a McCain/Palin administration would be openly fascists?
Losing this election to a black guy who they regard as being illegitimately installed by the eastern liberal press establishment might bring us to a very ugly tipping point.