1. "Excuse me ma'am, I speak wingnut." Ben Carson's comments linking the Kavanaugh accusations to the Fabian Society might sound like gibberish. But if you are fluent in right-wing mythohistory, it's perfectly logical.https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1043272137677721600 …
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12. Tangentially, the high-brow version of this is conservative intellectuals blaming large historical change on some philosophical heresy: gnosticism, nominalism, Machiavellianism, etc. As if ideas caused reality rather than reflected it.
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13. So: in 1940s and 1950s, lots of right-wing Americans were grousing about Fabians. Ben Carson is echoing this distant conspiracy theory in his remarks.
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Because nature abhors a vacuum and the space Alex Jones occupied is open?
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Fascinating write up. Thanks for the context.
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Of course, this is the same bunch of twits that appear to genuinely think of the Clintons and Obama as radical leftists.
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I'm sure you're aware of the Fabian football cheer.
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“the herbivorous left”. That’s special.
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