...about the existence of Fox News, Hate Radio, the Republican Party or the American Conservative Movement:
DAVID BROOKS: ... It’s Putin’s strategy is incitement and sort of messianic fantasy nationalism which both rhetorically has whipped up this messianic nationalist fervor, and then physically armed these people...DAVID BROOKS: Well, I don’t think you have to be a super historian to look at times in the past when people have whipped up fervor and then lost control.
'Cause it would break his widdle heart:
UPDATE: Josh Marshall thinks along the same lines:
So that's who you're dealing with: some mix of civil war reenactor or Tea Partier decked out in revolutionary garb, with a mix of reckless aggression and comical incompetence. Here we have them break into nursing homes to photographs senator's comatose wives; there Putin gives them heavy armaments designed for full scale land war in Europe.
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For some reason I can't quite explain, that photoshop may be your most disturbing work yet.
Cool photo: looks like Tyrion Lannister, who in the book is wicked creepier than Peter Dinklage.
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