Reply #29: I imagine this sort of thing happens every so often.

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Conservatives are lashing back from being marginalized for so long because their ideas simply aren't functional.

This wave is being helped along by those forces that would use it - the nazi/fascist M.O. is clearly getting a lot of play. They knew this would happen eventually and are trying to use the momentum, and push it along, to bring about their own goals. They've managed to hold the current coalition together as they hold power in it.

I think it remains to be seen whether they can push our country over the edge this time. A lot of eyes are opening up right now, and they barely have half the country. Even that grip is tenuous.

I think it would be subsiding already if not for the efforts of the Nazi/neocon/whatever they are now crowd.