Digby and Orcinus have a good analysis of domestic unrest in the US, riffing off a Rick Perlstein post o and how the extreme right  is likely to become more violent in 2008. There are a lot of factors in play, one of the ones most important is the PTSD of war weary US military, many who will be returning from a third or fourth tour of duty, unable to to get the help and support they need. 

Digby’s warning on this point is, as always, on the money: the faction to watch here is the returning veterans of the Iraq war. I’ve contended since early in the conflict that the war would prove to be the Timothy McVeigh Memorial Finishing School: the extreme stresses under which we are now placing these soldiers, especially in the form of multiple tours and forced reenlistment, is eventually going to produce a bumper crop of damaged citizens, some of whom are going to be extremely vulnerable to the “stab in the back” meme that’s become a major note in the right-wing drumbeat on the war.

There have been isolated individual events, well below the  attention of the average US citizen.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen blogger LaShawn Barber call President G.W. Bush an idiot before. Barber is a Christian conservative blogger, has strong views and an ability to self-promote, but in her God-talk, God-walk tension to appeal to her blog readership base, this surprised me.
Richard Bartholomew notes the apocalyptic book boom, coming on the heels of a upsurge in books the past few years warning that examined the extremist religious right, and in time for the US election.

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