How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America

Politics is the last place where we’re supposed to be satisfied between Brand A and Brand B,” says John Avlon, author of the new book Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America. Hyper-partisans and rhetorical extremists on the left and the right—characters such as Reps. Alan Grayson and Michele Bachmann, commentators such as Keith [...]

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