The answer to the latter question remains to be seen, I guess. But I think most readers understood what I meant. Since the Clinton Wars of the late ’90s, and especially since the 9/11 attacks, social conservatives – the folks who get their religious doctrine from Pat Robertson and their political doctrine from Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter – have metastasized into something we haven’t seen in this country since the McCarthy era: a large, reasonably well-organized right-wing authoritarian movement, which not only fears and loathes its left-wing opponents, but increasingly regards opposition itself as tantamount to treason.
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