When he was elected President of the College Republicans in 1981 Jack Abramoff was quoted (by way of Today's Globe) as saying the following:
"Our job," Abramoff wrote, "is to remove liberals ''from power permanently -- [from] student newspaper and radio stations, student governments, and academia.
"We are replacing these leftists with committed conservatives."
Well, y' know Jack does come from a famously un-ambitious generation... hence infantile fantasies of domination and elimination were often confused with a sort of go-getter hustling disposition.
Ah but sort of morbid bombast clearly something Jack never outgrew, along with the other political barons of the GOP, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, Karl Rove etc etc etc...
Late at night when the bourbon flowed long enough, they'd start squalling away like bloodthirsty Mau Maus.
Hell they liked being characterized as such, made them feel all tough and studly under all that baby fat.
Still and all that, this does point up a real problem over the long term: in a Two party System, If One Party has indentified it's competition as a Threat to National Security that Must Be Eliminated, then how long can democracy survive?
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