Kos writes:
Oh, [right-wingers] desperately wanted Norway’s attacks to be the handiwork of jihadists so they could continue justifying the trillions of dollars and countless lives wasted on our overseas adventures.
Then, it turned out the terrorist was a white Christian conservative, and poof! They lost interest. I mean, how dare you smear an entire group of people based on the actions of just one bad apple?
Then those same conservatives shifted into damage control mode when it also turned out that the terrorist was hugely inspired by the tea party. From his manifesto:
We, the European Revolutionary Conservatives know very well that it will take many years, even decades before we successfully manage to consolidate to a degree where we can seize political and military power in the first Western European country. In the US, the Tea party movement is one of the first physical, political manifestations which indicate that there is a great storm coming. The creation of similar conservative organizations, even the creation of revolutionary conservative movements … is about to materialize. The cultural Marxists are losing their momentum to our advantage.
What gets missed in the discussion is that Islamic terrorism, Christian terrorism and anti-government terrorism are all examples of right-wing terrorism. There is just no modern equivalent on the left. Today’s terror and intimidation, whether it be bombs or bullying, is coming entirely from the fundamentalist right. There is only disagreement on whose god is the right god but the genesis of their maniacal inspiration is drawn from the exact same authoritarian wellspring.
