I Take No Pleasure In The Vindication

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Washington Times on NIXONLAND:

He concludes: "Do Americans not hate each other enough to fanatsize about killing one another, in cold blood, over political and cultural disagreements? It would be hard to argue they do not."

On the contrary. It's not at all difficult to argue they do not...

Washington Post on NIXONLAND:

In a peculiar passage, he writes, convolutedly: "Do Americans not hate each other enough to fantasize about killing one another, in cold blood, over political and cultural disagreements? It would be hard to argue they do not."

Well, I, for one, don't find it so hard

Michael Reagan, Ronald's son, nine days ago:

Take em out and shoot em. . . . You take em out, they are traitors to this country, and shoot them. . . . Anybody who would do that doesn't deserve to live. You shoot them. You call them traitors, that's what they are. And you shoot em dead. I'll pay for the bullets.

[Paperwright offers this list of murder-fantasizers from 2005]


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