The lurking danger of Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the remnants of the now-dead GOP

I see the remaining remnants of the now-dead GOP as feral dogs.

One word: Desperate.

I hear the Hannity's and Cheney's and Limbaugh's and Beck's, and I sense danger. As well as a lot of misdirected anger. Just look in the f*cking mirror I say.

They had power, they took America and the world to the brink of ruin, and now they've been rightly tossed aside.

Rush, Cheney, Hannity and friends are trying to fire up the 21% of the country still clinging to the now-dead GOP. They're trying to blame the problems that they have caused on the newcomers. And it's not working. They've lost power, they have zero hope for the future, and their cause is lost.

Like Nazis after the war, most will come to see how tragically wrong they were. But a few never will. And those are the ones that are dangerous.

The Summer of Rage may go places we didn't expect.

Here's a view from the left. I think there's something to it.

The assassination jokes and "liberal" conspiracy theories on talk radio could be an ominous sign of things to come.

With the national Republican party in disarray, an argument is solidifying among grass-roots conservatives:

Liberals, who are now in power in Washington, hate America and want to dismantle its foundational institutions and liberties, including capitalism and private property. Liberals are rootless internationalists who cravenly appease those who want to kill us. The primary principle of conservatives, on the other hand, is love of country, for which they are willing to sacrifice and die. America's identity was forged by Christian faith and our Founding Fathers, to whose prudent and unerring 18th-century worldview we must return.

In a harried, fragmented, media-addled time, there is an invigorating simplicity to this political fundamentalism. It is comforting to hold fast to hallowed values, to defend tradition against the slackness of relativism and hedonism. But when the tone darkens toward a rhetoric of purgation and annihilation, there is reason for alarm.