Monday, July 30, 2012
The NY Times calls them Conservatives
Normal people call them radical extremists but whatever you call them, they have no love of democracy or the United States. Their latest purge, verging on a pogrom, is to remove any Republicans from the party who disagree with them.
Frustrated by their inability to achieve some policy goals, conservatives in Republican states are turning against moderate members of their own party, trying to drive them out of state legislatures to clear the way for reshaping government across a wide swath of mid-America controlled by the GOP.The Bolsheviks conducted similar purges in their early years in power in Russia. The result was Stalin. Extremists are always dangerous.
Political groups are helping finance the efforts by supporting primary election challenges targeting several dozen moderate Republicans in the Midwest and South, especially prominent lawmakers who run key state committees.
Two years after Republicans swept into power in many state capitols, the challengers say it's time to adopt more conservative policies.
"If you don't believe in that playbook, then why are you on the team?" declared Greg Smith, who is trying to oust a moderate incumbent from the Kansas state Senate.
The push is most intense in Kansas, where conservatives are attempting to replace a dozen moderate Republican senators who bucked new Gov. Sam Brownback's move to slash state income taxes.
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I'm near the end of the second volume of Isaac Deutscher's three-volume biography of Trotsky. The man who had been second only to Lenin has been expelled from the Party and exiled to Borat Land. By whom? The Stalinists who now live in Kansas.
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