Liberal Talk Radio

Lately on the show, I’ve been talking a lot about my growing fear of right-wing extremism.

We’ve received a few comments from listeners, mostly accusing me of being a bit hysterical about the whole thing. And while I generally understand that criticism, I do think that the country’s taking an ugly turn.

Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks so:

No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history’s sloppy first draft. But if I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn’t choose the kabuki health care summit that generated all the ink and 24/7 cable chatter in Washington. I’d put my money instead on the murder-suicide of Andrew Joseph Stack III, the tax protester who flew a plane into an office building housing Internal Revenue Service employees in Austin, Tex., on Feb. 18. It was a flare with the dark afterlife of an omen.

Rich — somewhat unusually — has quite a bit of fact packed into his piece. Anyone who isn’t worried about the dark turn America has taken would do well to give it a read.