"As the Bundy example illustrates, a free people will cheerfully abandon bedrock principles like equality before the law if state power is being used to torment a racist or a homophobe or someone whose very presence offends against the citizenry's sense of its own virtue." P>And so pre-Nazi era as well.
“a free people will cheerfully abandon bedrock principles like equality before the law if state power is being used to torment a racist or a homophobe or someone whose very presence offends against the citizenry’s sense of its own virtue.”
Isn’t this what happened when so many people didn’t vote for Romney, not that I am defending him, but would rather go with a Marxist then with a rich capitalist?