‘Tucson and Zhivago’

‘…We have seen this movie before.  Today’s incivility gambit expands the left’s shopworn tactic of charging conservatives with racism and discrimination against various minorities i.e., making them enemies of certain classes of people.  Post-Tucson, they simply began tarring the right as enemies of all the people.  Pasternak shows that, once begun, such witch hunts gain a grim momentum that feeds on itself.  In the American context, with the onset of an epic policy struggle between the branches of government and a presidential election, the libeling of the right will surely continue.  Progressives and their media supporters will be further motivated by a desperate need to dictate the terms of a debate they cannot win on their agenda or their record.  After their midterm debacle, keeping conservatives on the defensive is an existential imperative…’   American Thinker
Update: Redbaiter has an interesting post up, pointing out that some German people towards the end of WW2 behaved much the same way, and for the same reasons.