Wickedness (Part Two in a Series)

Rick Perlstein's picture

Just a quick observation about the durability of right-wing wickedness. This just in from my friends at Newsmax.com, on how "Obama Will Cause 'Mammoth Depression'" (as an extra treat I include a few lines—on how to cure cancer, obesity, arthritis, etc., via secrets medical science won't tell you about!!—to illustrate a favorite old perennial here at The Big Con: that Conservatives Treat Their Constituents Like Suckers®):

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Here's that same old chestnut from the 1984 presidential contest, in a letter to fund the shock troops of College Republicans probably drafted by Jack Abramoff and signed by Jack Kemp (h/t The Wrecking Crew)

our nation is in grave danger of sliding into another depression.... That's right A depression worse than the so-called Great Depression.

More on what to do and what not to do about this sort of stuff soon.


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