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Fasten Your Seatbelts, Ladies and Gentlemen: A Warning from Guy Fleegman

Posted on October 10, 2008

Paul Krugman: Not about the financial crisis - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog: The crisis isn't the only scary thing going on. Something very ugly is taking shape on the political scene: as McCain's chances fade, the crowds at his rallies are, by all accounts, increasingly gripped by insane rage. It's not just a mob phenomenon it's visible in the right-wing media, and to some extent in the speeches of McCain and Palin. We've seen this before. One thing that has been sort of written out of the mainstream history of politics is the sheer insanity of the attacks on ...

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