Rachel Maddow Asks: Is Any Republican Tamping Down Political Rage?

If you don't think that the political climate has descended into a scary, potentially dangerous place, I've got news for you: you are probably one of the angry mob. The scatter-shot, all over the place, rabid rage of the right has all the elements of an out of control pitchfork-wielding mob. They hate the President, they believe we're becoming a socialist, communist, Marxist, totalitarian, Nazi (all of these words have become interchangeable) country. They say they "want their country back," and yet they're fuzzy on exactly how it is being taken away. And they're convinced that President Obama is going to try to take their guns away, even though gun control has been cooling off the back burner for years.

That didn't stop radio back-bencher (and Sean Hannity string-puller) Mark Levin from saying yesterday that Obama was doing just that. Freakin' liar. Anyway, because of all this, the rhetoric has gotten heated to over boiling, and those scared angry people--who DO cling to their guns and religion, sorry--are calling the President the Antichrist, buying guns and bullets in record numbers, and actually showing up outside Presidential speaking events with guns.

It doesn't take a Sesame Street "if I do this, then this might happen" object lesson to see where this might be headed. But the Republican leadership has mostly jumped on the loony fringe bandwagon. The lunatics are really running the asylum. This clip from The Rachel Maddow Show addresses this problem head on. I highly recommend it.