Liberal Talk Radio

I think it’s clear by now that Tom DeLay et. al. have turned the Republican Party into a roving band of thugs, who rustle up and intimidate any opposition, dole out government contracts as gravy for party loyalty, discredit war heroes if they attempt to stand in the way, and install incompetent 3rd-rate political appointees in positions vital to national security. So how do they get away with it? Ed Kilgore explains:

In fact, I would argue that their most important tactical consideration has been to destroy the possibility of accountability by short-circuiting all the signals whereby a healthy society normally judges its leaders. Any source of objective measurement has been systematically discredited as inherently ideological: scientists are secularist fanatics; the media are elitist liberals; the judiciary is full of anti-Christian activists; the opposition party is anti-American. We’ve all had much fun with the conservative characterization of “liberals” as “reality-based,” but it’s no laughing matter: the essence of Rovism is to eliminate any zone of rational persuasion and force Americans to pick sides in an identity politics of real and perceived privileges under imaginary assault.

Either you’re with us or your against us. That phrase was designed to resonate at home, too.