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For at least a decade or so, there seems to have been a sort of unspoken agreement amongst all but the far-left to ignore or even accomodate these kind of attacks!
But the failure by most progresssives to fight against the extreme right attack dogs has only empowered and encouraged them to become less civil and more outspoken to the point of fantasy.
Counter attack is the only way.
I couldn't agree more. Even now, whenever I write about these people and their tactics, there are invariably people who come and tell me I shouldn't write about them, should ignore them, shouldn't waste my time on them -- as though if they are ignored, they just go away and do no harm.
I don't know what else has to be done to prove how counter-productive that view is. The need for attacking these sorts of things directly is one of the principal points -- and principal purposes -- of my new book.