Nutters Of The Mainstream Right

Here’s Thomas Sowell in the National Review Online (via TNR):

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

Likely, he’s fantasizing about his wet dream of “Bush Forever!” He thinks if he can start spreading the meme now, it can become reality by … oh … how ’bout … January 2009.

This kind of talk should be reviled. Yet, to the right, Sowell’s an intellectual giant worthy of a lifetime of wingnut welfare. His twisted thoughts get published in one of their major outlets.