To wit:
It is no longer productive to pretend a cavalry of responsible grownups from the Right is going to arrive and scold and shame people like Alan Keyes into shutting the fuck up. Keyes isn’t capable of shame and Keyes isn’t the problem: he is merely the latest high-profile ugly symptom of a disease that the Right -- your Right -- has always nurtured and cultivated.
On the other hand, responsible grownups on the Left have already wasted decades of time and energy and money and adjectives trying to warn people like you about people like Keyes and the calamitous arc your movement was following by embracing people like Keyes. Because, Mr. Sullivan, your movement has always been built around pandering to lunatics like Keyes.
So we warned you.
And warned you.
Holy Fucking Venus on a Vespa, did we ever warn you.
It gets better.
Also, Avedon.
They're still trying to pretend that they have sexy young up-and-comers waiting in the wings when by now everyone can see that the Republican Party and its hangers on are mostly loonies, thugs, and shriekers. At this point, in fact, the Republicans only have to keep saying something before people start to think it might not be true. Eventually, there really do seem to be consequences to being habitual liars or at least consistently wrong for long enough, even if the Villagers take no notice.
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