Normalizing Crazy

Digby:
"When Ann Coulter said "we need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too, otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors," to rapturous applause at the 2002 CPAC, we knew she wasn't just kidding....

...When Limbaugh said, "I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for," we didn't doubt him anymore.

And, yes, when Andrew Sullivan said that we liberals in blue enclaves formed a fifth column, you'll have to forgive us for assuming he was among the people who wished to see us jailed or dead. "

Right wing authoritarianism is plagued by this kind of homicidal rhetoric. The sooner the American people wake up to this, the better. These people are toxic to our society and especially to our politics. They should be held accountable for their sociopathic rantings on the public stage and treated for their psychological ills.