Linguistics: Should we refer, not to Tea Party but to the "Stalinist Wing of the Republican Party"?

[Faryn Balyncd]

34. You have a valid point.

And I agree that what we are seeing is fascism, and meets Sinclair Lewis's apt description ( "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.&quot .

Unfortunately, overuse has created this "Godwin's Law" phenomenon, of which an unfortunate side-effect is the widespread discounting of comparisons with fascism, no matter how accurate.

Comparison to the authoritarianism of Stalin (and it doesn't hurt to point out the under-reported Koch origins of both the Tea Party, the Koch involvement in the Birch Society, and the little known Koch history making money in any way possible (whether through routine measurement fraud on their pipelines or through business with Stalin), by coming out of left field, so to speak, both bypasses Godwin's Law, and mocks their hypocritical (& mythological) claims to being anti-big-government, freedom loving patriots.

Exposing them as the total opposite of their pretensions is a fate they deserve.