This is reading like an appendix to Eric Hoffer's The True Believer.
On the role of eliminationist rhetoric in modern talk radio, Dave Niewert got here years ago, as summed up in his 2009 book, The Eliminationists, which drew flak for arguing that when right-wingers call for the extermination of their political opponents, some of them aren't just joking around, some of them aren't exaggerating, and the rest of them do, in fact, know full well that eliminationist rhetoric results in unhinged paranoids turning to assassination. They stick with it, even so, not because they're murderous psychos, but because they've concluded that rhetoric that's any less inflammatory costs them elections.
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On the role of eliminationist rhetoric in modern talk radio, Dave Niewert got here years ago, as summed up in his 2009 book, The Eliminationists, which drew flak for arguing that when right-wingers call for the extermination of their political opponents, some of them aren't just joking around, some of them aren't exaggerating, and the rest of them do, in fact, know full well that eliminationist rhetoric results in unhinged paranoids turning to assassination. They stick with it, even so, not because they're murderous psychos, but because they've concluded that rhetoric that's any less inflammatory costs them elections.