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In reply to the discussion: Ann Coulter has fallen from grace — and the reason why is terrifying [View all]JHB
(37,158 posts)17. "From grace" among conservatives, that is...
I think the better part is at the end:
Lowrey thinks Coulter is pretty much an act that's gone sour in the age of polarization and she may be right. She compares her to Donald Trump (who Coulter extols for his "immigrants are rapists" comments, which she believes he got from her) and there is a certain kind of scary-clown aspect to both of them. But I think it's something else -- she just isn't all that shocking anymore. And the reason is that, after all these years -- through which she and her fellow right-wing bomb throwers have been poisoning the discourse and polluting our politics with the most egregious dehumanization of just about everyone on the planet who doesn't look and sound like them -- nobody is listening anymore.
Today, Ann Coulter is just political white noise. Sure, she'll sell her books to the small group of people who can't get enough of her bilious humor and hatred but her days of being a mainstream pop culture phenomenon are over. Everybody's heard it all before. There's almost a whiff of noxious nostalgia about it now.
The question is whether or not there's anyone left in the Republican Party who can crawl out from under the pile of offal that people like Coulter have buried them under and say something new to America. For the first time in nearly two decades they are ignoring her provocations. Whatever else happens that's very good news.
Today, Ann Coulter is just political white noise. Sure, she'll sell her books to the small group of people who can't get enough of her bilious humor and hatred but her days of being a mainstream pop culture phenomenon are over. Everybody's heard it all before. There's almost a whiff of noxious nostalgia about it now.
The question is whether or not there's anyone left in the Republican Party who can crawl out from under the pile of offal that people like Coulter have buried them under and say something new to America. For the first time in nearly two decades they are ignoring her provocations. Whatever else happens that's very good news.
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Ann Coulter has fallen from grace — and the reason why is terrifying [View all]
TexasTowelie
Jun 2015
OP
She's just another Right Wing lunatic. Her 15 minutes are up. Retire Ann, retire. She won't.
YOHABLO
Jun 2015
#18
I don't have time to read the whole thing now, but what is the "terrifying" reason?
Arugula Latte
Jun 2015
#32
I can't keep the page loaded, so I'd like to know that too. She's a hateful specimen....
Hekate
Jun 2015
#33
Thank you TT. Yes, the poisoning of political discourse is costing this country its soul. The sooner
Hekate
Jun 2015
#38
Which would explain 20 years of miniskirts? She's always played up the blonde bullshit angle.
hatrack
Jun 2015
#41