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The only comfort I get from any of this is; at least we know what people like Ashcroft and Coulter want. They want to go BACK to the 1950s, that's their agenda. I'm more wary of guys like Wolfowitz because I just don't have a good idea of what their ultimate goal is, aside from some vague sense of global dominion. You can easily second guess someone like Ashcroft on the other hand by just opening a history book and looking up "McCarthy".
Another source of hope is that it would take a hell of a lot to truly go back to the 1950s culturally. Much more than taking down some random porn company. Perhaps Ashcroft only does this as a kind of pointless romantic gesture to give the wowsers the comforting illusion that the times truly are a changin' back - in exchange for their votes.
Is he serious or is it a token gesture? Who knows for sure. Probably a better idea at the moment to be wary rather than completely panic.
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