The right sees so much unity to join under this atmosphere of national emergency. They par their political adversaries as the handmaidens of those enemies of the united states. This is a very familiar pattern of politics throughout the twentieth century, and particularly after the second world war. You see a tremendous amount of roxombi anti communism in the political roles that the parties immediately adopt.
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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