MORE STUPID, THIS TIME IN SALON

It's good to have a variety of opinions but this piece is just more STUPID. Here's what I'm talking about:

Back in the 1960s, Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard Hofstadter and other liberal sociologists, historians and political scientists, puzzled that anyone could support Barry Goldwater rather than Lyndon Johnson, concluded that Goldwater supporters were deranged. They didn't say so directly, of course. They said that members of the radical right were emotionally disturbed victims of "status anxiety." The evidence? They didn't vote the way that Lipset and other academics thought that they should vote. Therefore they had to be crazy.

The evidence was all the krazy ideas the radical right embraced, such as the belief that Eisenhower was a Communist tool.