VON BRUNN AND POLITICAL CATEGORIES

The wingers have been trying to claim that the white supremacist who murdered the guard at the Holocaust Museum in DC is a leftist. I first came across this in comments on Politico and thought it might be just some more Freeper nonsense but this claim is now part of mainstream conservatism. The tactic seems to be a deliberate mingling of concepts to make conservatism appear to be blemish-free, something that started with Jonah Goldberg.