progressives gone wild?

"Is all this evidence that the ranks of the progressive movement are filled with bigots and misogynists prone to acts of violence? Hardly. It merely demonstrates the common sense fact that neither the left nor the right has a monopoly on political extremism, though you wouldn't know that from following the dominant political narrative of the day.

According to that narrative, concern about a runaway national debt, opposition to the strong-arm tactics of Democrats to pass the health care folly and any criticism of the current commander in chief are signs of irredeemable bigotry. In what may be the most splenetic example, Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy wrote, “I know how the ‘tea party' people feel. ... I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their ‘Obama Plan White Slavery' signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.”

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