June 17, 2009
We've heard a lot of warnings about extremist paranoia in
the months since Barack Obama became president, and especially
since the deaths of George Tiller and Stephen Tyrone Johns. We've
heard much less about the paranoia of the centrists; indeed, the
very idea that the sober center could be paranoid sounds bizarre.
But when mainstream columnists treat a small group of unconnected
crimes as a "pattern" of "rising right-wing violence," writes
Managing Editor Jesse Walker, their thesis bears more than a little
resemblance to the conspiracy theories of the fringe figures they
oppose.
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