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The Right Plays to its Nativist Base

By David Neiwert, TomPaine.com. Posted October 2, 2007.


What passes for "conservatism" these days is a theater of scapegoating that fuels not just the anti-immigrant right but also the anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-liberal rhetoric.
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David Neiwert is the author of In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest and Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, A Trial, and Hate Crime in America. He is proprietor of the Orcinus blog.

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