Essential reading:If you read only one blog this month/day/hour, read Glenn Greenwald's
Do Bush followers have a political ideology? Which contains this neat summary about prominent commentators on the right:
... people like Michelle Malkin, John Hinderaker, Jonah Goldberg and Hugh Hewitt are not conservatives. They are authoritarian cultists. Their allegiance is not to any principles of government but to strong authority through a single leader.
posted by Quiddity at 2/12/2006 02:44:00 PM
These are characteristics of people who (macho posturing aside) are essentially terrified of everything around them. They're looking for a big daddy to protect them. Ironically, with the crew in Washington, they got a bunch who are just as cowardly (again, macho posturing aside).
