The Most Incredible Smackdown of the Republican Party
This is an amazing smackdown of the Republican party. Never in my blogging life did I ever expect to read a former Republican pro-lifer write such a glorious diatribe. Here is just one bit of its’ goodness:
That said — certain power-hungry individuals (Dobson, Falwell, Robertson, Rove, Reed et al.) took the energy of our original pro-life movement and used it to build a hate campaign reminiscent of the early momentum that drove European Fascist parties in the mid-1920s through the mid-1940s. Fear of the “other” gays, immigrants, intellectuals, artists, the media, feminists, etc., morphed into a general critique of “the elite” which turned out to be anyone with an education or even big city dwellers. The Religious Right became a crude populist movement pitting the resentful rubes against the rest.
What are you waiting for? Go and read the whole thing. I promise you it will be worth your while.
