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But you're using here just about every rationalization I've ever encountered for supporting an extremist: "He doesn't REALLY believe these things, he just sort of presents them like...like THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS. It's all just abstract. An ABSTRACTION, see? Yeah, thats it..." "It's all about STATES RIGHTS! I mean, what could be wrong with that, leaving questions of basic rights up to the states. No harm could come from that! Right?....right?" "He wouldn't be ABLE to implement all those crazy ideas as president. I mean, he might WANT to, but he wouldn't be ABLE to, so why whould we worry?" (I used to hear this one a lot during Pat Robertson's run for president.) And of course, "He's better than those OTHER guys..."
One of the things I've feared about our current march towards fascism is the extent to which it can make other extremists seem palatable, even acceptable. It's truly depressing, Mr. Greenwald, to see you fall into the same trap that's ensnared apologists for everyone from Jesse Helms, to Pat Robertson, to Lyndon Larouch.
