I think they're just very good at making a noise, and in reality far fewer people support them than it seems. I hope. Living in the liberal, elitist northeast, that's the pleasant sort of fiction I like to tell myself but, really, the country is so massive and so regionally diverse that it's nearly impossible to get an accurate picture of these sorts of things. I can go whole months without talking to someone who takes Glenn Beck seriously, but that doesn't mean they're not out there, and in large numbers.
The good news is that, modern abuses of executive power to the contrary, our entire system of government really is built from the ground up to balance out opposing forces and to resist sudden changes in direction. They're not going to take over the country, no matter how much they yell and wave their arms.
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Living in the liberal, elitist northeast, that's the pleasant sort of fiction I like to tell myself but, really, the country is so massive and so regionally diverse that it's nearly impossible to get an accurate picture of these sorts of things. I can go whole months without talking to someone who takes Glenn Beck seriously, but that doesn't mean they're not out there, and in large numbers.
The good news is that, modern abuses of executive power to the contrary, our entire system of government really is built from the ground up to balance out opposing forces and to resist sudden changes in direction. They're not going to take over the country, no matter how much they yell and wave their arms.