Paul Krugman's piece in the November 9, 2009 New York Times - very interesting read about the far right, paranoia politics and the Republician party. Some interesting observations -
- the far right leadership isn't interested in governing;
- the far right that used to be manipulated by the Republician party to help it get elected then abandoned so the party could serve the moneyed elites now effectively runs the party.
Most surprisingly - Richard Hofstadter in 1964 in an essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" foresaw much of the far right crisis currently under way.
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But doe Democrats have any interest in governing either?
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