When people call their opponents fascists, it means nothing. Fascism as a word lost meaning decades ago, but since Jonah cranked out his partisan screed, all the poor oppressed cons have been babbling about liberal fascists, as if the “Politics of Meaning” was anything more than an empty label.
You can posture all you want about being anti-homosexuality but not anti-homosexual or loving the sinner but hating the sin, the fact is a good chunk of the GOP and cons in gerneral hate gays. Does this make them fascists, no, it just means they hate gays. How many times have I heard cons ridicule Andrew Sullivan about his gayness, demean Nancy Pelosi for attending a gay pride parade or call into Alan Colmes and scream some banal juvenile queer baiting remark, I have lost track. But hating gays is acceptable amongst many cons, and please don’t ridcule and insult me for pointing out this fact. This is part of their ignorant, John Wayne movie fantasy warrior culture and despising anything that isn’t as tough as the some brutal Marine they imagine they are.
