I Have Nothing to Add to This

From Driftglass, who cuts to the truth of things:

The sad truth is that Hate is the Right's Ring of Power. They're never going to give it up, because they know the minute they do -- the minute they're no longer allowed to pretend that Liberals are evil, freedom-hating fifth-columnist monsters who are dragging America into a Marxist abyss on the secret orders of our Kenyan Usurper Overlord -- their whole ideology would implode...

...they would never win another election...

...and tens of thousands of powerful, well-remunerated insiders from Rush Limbaugh to David Gregory who depend on that hate for their daily bread would suddenly have to go out and find honest work.

And this, from the post after that one:

There was no Palin when McVeigh blew up the federal building in Oklahoma to stop the Evil Government whose imaginary treachery had been dinned into his ears for years, or when militias armed themselves against the coming of the Black Helicopters and the U.N. New World Order, or when the Clintons were being gutted in the press every day as a murderers, assassins, depraved monsters and drug dealers...

...but there was Grover Norquist and Dick Armey. There was Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh.

When the World Trade Center came down, there was no Palin immediately blaming it on Liberals and gays and the ACLU...

...but there was Jerry Falwell and Pat Roberston.

UPDATE: And from Paul Krugman, who is saying what the rest of us are saying, but he has a much bigger megaphone.

UPDATE 2: And this, as well.