It's not like we needed Ann Coulter or Mark Levin to turn conservatives into extermists, extremists were the heart and soul of the movement over 30 years ago.
Lord, Make Me Conservative, But Not Yet
June 18, 2008; Page A13
THE TILTING YARD
By THOMAS FRANK
Again and again, it is the most zealous and high-minded conservative soldiers who lurk behind the movement's foulest deeds. Richard Nixon, for example, always turned to what he called "right-wing exuberants" when he needed something really dirty done. Among the most exuberant was Tom Charles Huston, a famously idealistic leader of the Young Americans for Freedom, who drew up the administration's notorious plan for domestic spying. "What does it mean," asks historian Rick Perlstein, "that the member of Nixon's staff who was closest to the conservative movement, who was best-versed in its literature and its habits, was not merely the most ruthless malefactor on Richard Nixon's staff but the one most convinced he was acting on principle?"
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