Hurr Durr MAGA IS THREATER THAN TALIBAN HURR DURR

David Rothkopf is an idiot. And so is The Daily Beast, apparently. I'm not even going to link to it. Too stupid.

   Obviously there are dangerous ideas and people on the American political right. Obviously 1/6 was bad, and it was a right-wing event. Obviously MAGA---like right-of-center politics generally--shades off into extremism. 

   This general point can be made in some form or other about basically every political movement and faction, with only the possible exception of some kind of really devoted centrism, I guess. 

   However:

(a) It's absurd to think that MAGA is a greater danger to the country than the Taliban--unless, I suppose, you just think that the Taliban isn't much of a threat. Of course that's not Mr. Rothkopf's point. 

(b) It's also a little weird to obsess about MAGA when the left has completely lost its mind, is rampaging across the country wreaking madness and destruction, and when its intellectual vanguard is articulating and propagating even more insane ideas that will not only lead to the destruction of the nation but which aim to do so. Actual hatred of the United States and the West are actual, major components of the weird mishmash of ideas that predominate among leftist intellectuals. 

   So...though I do agree that we should always keep a bit of an eye on the extremes...and though insanity on the right tends to fester until some lone wolf kills a lot of people...that is not in any way the current major political threat to the nation.