From the L.A. Times:
Right-wingers will not let go of their own misleading mythology. They
have a constricted vision of who the “real Americans” are and who they
are not. Until election night, they still believed that people like
themselves constituted a majority in this country. Now that they are
faced with the truth of their own diminishing numbers, they are
rejiggering reality. Incapable of accepting that the millions of people
who voted for Obama are overwhelmingly hardworking, family-loving,
patriotic Americans, they have to imagine them as the “takers” that Ayn
Rand warned them were coming.
This is a necessary self-deception.
Otherwise, conservative crazies would have to face an inconvenient
truth: On election day, a majority of real Americans rejected them.
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