Merrick maybe extrapolated a bit... but not all that far.
Savage can be seen as a buffoon, but the fact is that he and Coulter and Rush and the rest of that ilk are taken seriously by millions of people. It doesn't matter that they represent the smaller fraction of the total population... people who believe in rule by force, and act on it with shrewd zeal, usually go pretty far before they are challenged and taken down.
These are the people that were instrumental in putting Bush in office twice. They can't be casually dismissed.. they have an agenda and the will to impose it.
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