YES, THERE WERE "AMMOSEXUALS" IN THE 1960s

Rick Perlstein provides me with a reminder of the decade that made Barry Goldwater a presidential candidate:

Now, as a historian, it has been my project to demonstrate that there is nothing particularly new about the fetishization of anti-constitutional insurgency as Constitution-worship on the right. I’ve written about the Minutemen, the early-’60s crowd of gun nuts who stockpiled weapons for the final showdown against the state they were sure was imminent once the Communists finally took it over, and slapped stickers on the mailboxes of perceived enemies reading, “Traitors, beware! Even now the crosshairs are on the back of your necks.” In 1966 authorities arrested their leaders and confiscated their stockpiles of tons of ammunition, bombs and even rockets.

The only real difference between the 60s and the present is the addition of Muslim extermists,