Monday, December 24, 2007
They Made Their Bed Years Ago
It's time for the Republican party to lie in it. The embrace of the radical social right/Christianist politics in the late '70's and early '80's has led the party to this moment with unerring accuracy. Huckabee epitomizes the rise of the Christianist right that is coming to define the Republican party.
- Huckabee may stumble and falter in later primaries, but his right-wing Christian populism is here to stay. Huckabee represents a new and potent force in American politics, and the neocons and corporate elite, who once viewed the yahoos of the Christian right as the useful idiots, are now confronted with the fact that they themselves are the ones who have been taken for a ride. Members of the Christian right, recruited into the Republican Party and manipulated to vote against their own interests around the issues of abortion and family values, are in rebellion. They are taking the party into new, uncharted territory. And they presage, especially with looming economic turmoil, the rise of a mass movement that could demolish what is left of American democracy and set the stage for a Christian fascism.
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