HOW THE WINGNUTS THINK OF POLITICAL DIFFERENCES

I'm still surprised at the sheer amount of anger and hatred on the Right but I guess if I had been paying more attention back in the 80s, I wouldn't be. David Brock in Blinded by the Right, page 47, gives us a glimpse of what these extremists were thinking back then, in this case Newt Gingrich:

In a 1988 speech decrying the left's campaign against Bork, Newt Gingrich captured well how we saw things in the movement: "The left at its core understands in a way Grant understood after Shiloh that this is a civil war, that only one side will prevail, and that the other side will be relegated to history. This war has to be fought with the scale and duration and savagery that is only true of civil wars. While we are lucky in this country that our civil wars are fought at the ballot box, not on the battlefields, nonetheless it is a civil war."

UPDATE: Another source for this quote.