In the early 80s, the Federal govt told the states to raise their drinking age to 21 or...

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2. This is what we're up against, folks.

Fascism, by contrast, was a new invention created afresh for the era of mass politics. It sought to appeal mainly to the emotions by use of ritual, carefully stage-managed ceremonies, and intensely charged rhetoric. The role programs and doctrine play in it is, on closer inspection, fundamentally unlike the role they play in conservatism, liberalism, and socialism. Fascism does not rest explicitly on an elaborated philosophical system, but rather upon popular feelings about master races, unjust lot, and their rightful predominance over inferior peoples. It has not been given intellectual underpinnings by any system builder, like Marx, or by any major critical intelligence, like Mill, Burke, or Tocqueville.

-- Robert O. Paxton, "Anatomy of Fascism"



There will never be a statement too dumb or a hypocrisy too plain that will make the Republican reconsider his position because his positions are not contingent upon the truth.