Eugene Robinson nails it
in his Friday column for the Washington Post. Titled Republican rhetoric over the top it totally demolishes the false equivalence some try to offer to avoid confronting how awful some of what spews from the mouths of Republicans and their supporters actually is.
He begins very bluntly:
He begins very bluntly:
Not all overheated political rhetoric is alike. Delusional right-wing crazy talk — the kind of ranting we’ve heard recently from washed-up rock star Ted Nugent and Tea Party-backed Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) — is a special kind of poison that cannot be safely ignored.Let me be clear: I’m saying that the extreme language we hear from the far right is qualitatively different from the extreme language we hear from the far left — and far more damaging to the ties that bind us as a nation. Tut-tutting that both sides should tone it down is meaningless. For all intents and purposes, one side is the problem.After thoroughly exploring and exposing how horrid the remarks of Ted Nugent really are, and before he pivots to West, Robinson puts it quite bluntly:
This is what distinguishes the flame-throwers of the far right from those of the far left. Nugent and