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You see it as the end of the right wing movement in its current form; I see it as a continuation of it, maybe even the begining of a new phase, uglier than what came before. Would many of those people be cheering any less loudly if McCain was calling for an aggressive war in the M.E.? Maybe not, but only because it would be politically unpopular -- the morality of it wouldn't enter in the calculation. Today, they are willing to cheer when the American-born Obama is called a "terrorist;" do you think they'd stop cheering if there was a movement to force, say, muslims, to register themselves, or wear the equivalent of yellow stars? Maybe some of them would lose their enthusiasm, but many would not. Many people in that audience wish McCain was more ugly, more extreme. You see the end; I see the seeds of Nuremberg, 1927. Maybe those seeds won't sprout -- but they are there, just waiting for some water and a little sunlight.
