“[E]ver since the beginning of the Clinton administration, if not longer, a large segment of American movement conservatives have been working to convince each other, and their constituency, that any governing institution controlled by those who do not share their ideology is illegitimate and should be disobeyed or overthrown. One might shrug one’s shoulders and figure that, since right-wing extremists haven’t succeeded in destroying the American system of government yet, this is all just your typical PT Barnum grand American spectacle of looneyness. I’m not so sanguine, and I don’t think the appropriate response to this stuff is to ignore it. I also think that the reluctance of institutions of authority, notably major media organs, to call out people like Ms Bachmann, in order to draw the lines of acceptable political rhetoric, represents a dereliction of responsibility."
— Economist.com’s Democracy in America via Har Har Har.
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