(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker describes Howard Dean in harsh terms and suggests he should be politically eliminated.
- In plain terms
- Dean is called a dangerous fanatic who needs to be taken down.
- What can you take from it?
- Political opponents may be viewed as existential threats.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we define acceptable political criticism?
- When does opposition become dehumanizing?
Another view
This view reduces complex politics to personal destruction.
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