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The Far Right’s First 100 Days: Getting More Extreme by the Day | Media and Technology | AlterNet<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometime back in February, about three weeks into Barack Obama’s administration, everybody on the left suddenly noticed that there was something different going on with the conservatives.<\/p>\n

The outrageous screeds and paranoid delusions sounded pretty much as they always had — but there was a new fury behind them, a strident urgency that hadn’t been there before, and a very audible shift of the gears in right-wing behavior and rhetoric.<\/p>\n

None of this came as a surprise to veteran right-wing watchers — we’d been predicting a bad backlash since the 2006 election — but more than three months into the new administration, it’s increasingly hard to ignore the fact that this ominous new trend is taking on a momentum of its own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all, and pray for rain.\u00a0 To wash the dust out of these people’s eyes, and the dirt out of their brains.<\/p>\n

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