it's good to remember this when thinking about people like glenn beck who seem such clowns now.
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i'm not making a direct comparison here, but i seem to remember an earlier ultra-rightwing populist who was a bit of a clown and failed painter before some problems arose, some of which were enabled by folk assuming that a clown in appearance is a clown in all situations or even a clown in fact....
understanding of course that nothing in particular rises or falls or changes or doesn't on account of what happens on a messageboard, except of course for the situations within each of the textboxes that we each dutifully fill with words, it's not a good idea to underestimate this populist right.