06-10-2009
The Anti-American Right
For decades now, anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan has had to bear the slings of “anti-American” as if anything other than devotion to conservative orthodoxy means secret sympathy for Jane Fonda’s trip to Hanoi and the bombing campaign of the Weather Underground.
But can we take stock of some of the news in the past couple of days? The right’s spiritual leader, Rush Limbaugh, having previously stated in public that he hopes the current President will fail, has now called for a boycott of America’s leading car company, for the express purpose of causing its failure at the expense of American taxpayers. The Republican Governor of Texas, the U.S.’s second biggest state has publicly flirted with secession. Now Republican Congressman Mark Kirk, a leading contender for the GOP Senate nomination in Illinois, has bragged about telling China, both a major rival to the U.S. as well as a major creditor, that we have been lying in our budget numbers.
When do we get to call them the anti-American right?
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[…] Perhaps you’ve had a chance to review the proclamation of the Oklahoma state legislature that the financial crisis can be chalked up to American debauchery. This kind of broad brush blame America first accusation is oddly familiar and reminds of the old Soviet bloc habit of blaming all that was wrong in the world on the decadence of American capitalism. Like we were saying, when do we get to call them the anti-American right? […]