i think the nyt piece is important in that it touches on all these very disparate and inchoate political threads -- some of which are, and some of which are not, republican.
bigotry needs to be confronted and stopped. it's really important. for the dems or anyone else to be putting their heads in the sand while economically distressed people are flash-mobbed and hate-radioed into racial and gender crimes against humanity is -- well, a bad scenario in which hundreds of millions of lives were lost in the 20th century.
we need to be standing up to them and not writing them off as demon assholes.