Reason tears down the latest smear on upstanding American citizens (it’s getting difficult to compile them all), this one courtesy of the apparently very easily intimidated E.J. Dionne (It’s an old woman in a wheelchair with an American flag! Run for your lives!):
… But even less accurate than the intimidation charge is the notion that scattered individuals in a free country are the equivalent of uniformed murderers acting on behalf of a totalitarian government. I mean, this is not hard to grasp, right? And yet here we see our fellow not-in-power Americans described as “fascists,” “political terrorists,” and “brownshirts,” often by the very same people who complain (and rightly so!) about spurious Nazi analogies. [Me: See, e.g., the sputtering Barney Frank.]
Read more of E.J.’s Dinonsense if you want to see how these Americans, some of whom are black, are just like lynch mobbers.
