Here's a question: Is there
anything ultra-conservative nutcase Ted Nugent can say that would make him unwelcome in Republican circles? Fresh off the non-apology for calling President Obama a "subhuman mongrel," he's already back to call him a "jackbooted thug"
who is plotting to turn America into Nazi Germany.
Well I got to tell you, Dennis, I just don't agree at all. There was an incrementalism to what happened in Germany and other places historically, where they came in slowly. And they started, you know, the power struggle between the different races, and the power struggle between different elements of society. And they incrementally worked their way in. And I think that's what Obamacare is, that's what I think most of what he represents. The IRS -- I really believe that what we see with the IRS can be compared accurately and historically to the early maneuvers of people like jack booted thugs, like the brownshirts. I really believe that and I think that you are being too soft on them, because -- [...]
I think he really wants to destroy America. I think he wants to follow the Saul Alinksy Rules for Radicals book, destroy our economy, have a -- I can't even think of the term right now -- but the war between the haves and the have nots, when the haves have because they try really hard and the have nots don't have because they don't try as hard.
That's a whole lotta crazy bundled up in there.
Nonetheless, Nugent is still a welcome campaign fixture in Republican races, showing yet-a-freakin'-gain the party's role in mainstreaming hate speech, conspiracy theories and general buffoonery. You can't blame them, either: If you stripped all the conspiracy theories and predictions of imminent, liberal-led doom from Fox News, the tea party movement, and the gamut of conservative "thought leaders" from Sarah Palin to Ted Cruz to Darrell Issa, what would be left?