These are not terrorists: Wingnuts’ anti-LGBT dementia spirals out of control

For fringe lunatics on the right, the domestic terrorism threat has nothing to do with guns. It's "gay radicals"

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

One might expect that last weekend’s shooting of a couple of police officer and an innocent bystander by some far-right extremists would naturally result in some soul searching by conservatives. It’s far from the first time in recent years that it’s been revealed that heavily armed, anti-government ideologues were responsible for a killing spree. One of the more famous was the man who shot up a church in Tennessee back in 2008 claiming in his “manifesto” that it was out of his hatred for certain of his fellow Americans:



Similarly, the alleged male perpetrator of last weekend’s shooting in Las Vegas characterized liberalism as a “mental disorder” and incoherently spouted extremist ideology he apparently picked up on far-right websites and social media. Needless to say, he and his wife wound up at the Bundy Ranch and were, tellingly, just two among a number of well-armed volunteers who were deemed too volatile even for that crowd and they were sent packing.

But never let it be said that the right wing isn’t deeply concerned about the threat posed by extremism and domestic terrorism. They are on it. On the same morning that this violent event happened, the conservative website Townhall was sounding the alarm about the mortal peril we are all in from the fanatics in our midst:

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