What Color Is the Yellow Peril?

Politco.com article on GOP candidate for special election to US House

In light of this report, who can deny that the Republican Party (in Nevada, at least) has become the vessel and willing tool of dangerous reactionary demagoguery? And on what basis can one rate the Republican Party of any other state superior to that of Nevada?

The only difference between reactionary and revolutionary demagogues is that the former simply pander to the ignorant prejudices of the masses as they find them, while the latter attempt to manipulate and rearrange them. In the long run both are equally dangerous to any system of ordered liberty.

With “conservatives” like this, who needs Bolsheviks? (Indeed, did Lenin cause default on the Czar’s debt with any less insouciant contempt than Amodei threatens default on “Obama’s”? But Lenin was not a fool, and unlike Amodei and the Nevada GOP, he really had nothing to fear from the bondholders … )