Buchanan didn't tell his audience that his culture war would pit Americans against one another. He didn't tell America that his culture war was purely partisan. He didn't tell those not supporting that convention that they would become targets of a right jihad.
He didn't tell the nation that his culture war would be an entirely negative, destructive war that would treat citizens as enemies of the state though they are protected by the Constitution and are, in fact, on the right and historically correct side of the Constitution.
From the psychotic viewpoint of the increasingly radical right wing, it must destroy and subvert the Constitution in order to wage this war on the American population. Put another way: under Bush, the right wing has learned how to make legal what had been illegal under the Constitution.
Since 1992, the GOP has waged this war on many fronts: the schools, congressional districts, the courts, and, most insidiously, the validity of the ballot box itself. It is a war on anyone disagreeing with a narrow, increasingly rabid, fanatical Weltanschauung.
Under George W. Bush, the GOP has waged this war on fellow Americans as Hitler waged his war on the jew, that is, by denying to anyone dissenting the blessings of Due Process of Law. It is a political war that exploits the advantages of corporate power by forging a fascistic partnership with the corporate community. In alliance with big, corporate media, for example, the right wing junta slanders individuals, undermines the Bill of Rights, and, in other ways legal and illegal destroys the very underpinnings of American society. This is, for them, as it was for Hitler, a single-minded quest for raw power. It is total cultural war.
The mere impeachment and imprisonment of George W. Bush will not begin to address the crisis. As many bloggers have pointed out recently: Bush is as he has said a war President. What escapes mere words is Bush's role. He has become the impresario of a radical, right wing, fascist agenda that pits American against American, citizen against citizen. Bush's war is not against Iraq; it is against America, the American people, the Constitution, the rule of law, and Due Process of Law.
It has not always stopped short of violence in the streets. Among the more prominent examples is the gang of GOP "brownshirts" who feloniously attacked the recount rooms in Florida. More recently in Sugar Land, TX, a gang of thugs supporting Tom DeLay violently attacked a peaceful rally held by DeLay's Democratic opponent. Clearly the right wing will not be satisfied until the Constitution is overthrown and a dictatorship is installed; it has shown itself capable of violence and thuggery to make it happen.
