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Demagoguery, whether it is Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) childishly making faces on the Senate floor at Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Tina Fey mocking a vice presidential candidate or David Letterman calling her a slut, or a coordinated school of ground-feeders in South Carolina claiming to have had affairs with candidate Nikki Haley or the most absurd, anonymous claims today that Rand Paul kidnapped and drugged a college student or the legion of winged monkeys recently released and given imprimatur by the Obama staff to decry legitimate voices as racist â€" is a primary instinct to totalitarianism. It hopes to win the day by lying, libel, cheating or, as Malcolm X said, “by any means necessary.”

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