The Extreme Right

youtube ^ | June 15, 2009 | Jack Hunter aka Southern Avenger

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When New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and other liberal pundits tried to lay the blame for the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller and neo-Nazi James von Brunn's actions on the alleged "extremism" of the broader conservative movement, an examination was in order of how they couldn't be more wrong.

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"Extreme Right"

Moderation is a virtue. Full stop.

That is not an argument for the ersatz "moderation" of the sophist but a simple statement of fact.

We must struggle to hold onto the language, against the tide of sophistry which incessantly labors to turn the name of every virtue into a code word for tyranny, and to form ever more invidious comparisons between people they don't like and evil people - or, same thing to them, between people they don't like and other people they don't like (as by simultaneously smearing Senator Joseph McCarthy and a modern conservative by accusing the latter of "McCarthyism," or by accusing a conservative truth-teller of "swiftboating").

The sophists are not "liberal," even though the sophists inverted the meaning of the word in the 1920s. Nor are they "progressive," nor are they "moderate." They oppose liberty, they oppose progress (just try to introduce a new medicine and see what they say), and they resort to immoderate methods.

We need no conservatives embracing any such term as "extreme right."