Coulter and Hitler redux
Matthew Yglesias has some comments on the Coulter/Hitler quiz and how the Right’s writing style has changed over the past half-century:
Their rhetoric does have a lot of similar themes -- namely that liberals are evil and hell-bent on betraying the country -- but you really can tell them apart. For one thing, they have distinctive attitudes toward the question of the bourgeoisie. For Hitler, liberals are bourgeois (Hitler was, it's worth recalling, using liberal in the broader, European sense) and that's part of the problem. Coulter, by contrast, sees liberals as assaulting bourgeois values that she's defending.