There is, as expected, a larger point here. The whole thing revolves around the accepted and established Republican view that Democrats are enemies of the state who want to destroy America. Notice when Hank Jr. gave his hate-filled speech on Fox News the other day that he called them enemies that must be stopped.
In an interview Monday morning on Fox News' "Fox & Friends," Williams, unprompted, said of Obama's outing on the links with House Speaker John Boehner: "It'd be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu."
Asked to clarify, Williams said, "They're the enemy," adding that by "they" he meant Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.Naturally the enemy, when they do speak up and march in the streets, is partaking in a criminal activity. This is where our political discourse is at in America. It's not that you disagree with someone. It's that the other person is a socialist enemy that hates America.
In the entirety of Bush's 8 years, I disagreed with him many times. But never did I call him an enemy. Or someone that hates America. Never did I think the people who supported him where enemies that hated America. The same doesn't apply for Republicans who now find themselves in the minority. They view everyone-- yes everyone-- that doesn't believe everything they do and watch Fox News as enemies that must be stopped at all costs. There's a sort of cultish mix of fanaticism involved with such a mindset. Whatever it is, it's alive and well and has hijacked the GOP. There's no reason to think it's going to change any time soon either. It's a disgrace.
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