All of This Has Happened Before.

And all of this will happen again.

Without wealthy wingnuts bankrolling it and the Fox News/Conservative Hate Radio propaganda machine behind it (and the eager collaboration of the mainstream press) a few thousand armed cosplaying mopes scattered across the continent waving the Traitor Flag and screaming about tyranny would be a joke.

But with that huge propaganda machine firing on all cylinders?

Suddenly its a "movement".

Hey, speaking of propaganda, the Fake Tea Party and the effect of selling yourself to Fox News, here's a fun game!

Compare and contrast Mistah Kurtz -- who was never a hero of American journalism to begin with -- before he became a paid Fox News stooge:

And after he became a paid Fox News stooge:

There Is A Club
We Are Not In It