That extremists on either side of the spectrum are finding ways to play their game on common ground is indeed troublesome and worrying. Maybe we'll get lucky somehow and the boomerang theory will kick in at some point, and this will all come back to bite these horses' asses square in the hindquarters. Failing that, a couple of old saws come to mind about familiarity and horseshoes...
Familiarity breeds contempt, and close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Perhaps as these folks come closer together on their common ground of fear and hate, the inbred contempt they have for the "other" will kick in and they'll start throwing enough hand grenades at each other to fracture any meaningful effect of the political horseshoes they're pitching at the rest of the electorate.
That extremists on either side of the spectrum are finding ways to play their game on common ground is indeed troublesome and worrying. Maybe we'll get lucky somehow and the boomerang theory will kick in at some point, and this will all come back to bite these horses' asses square in the hindquarters. Failing that, a couple of old saws come to mind about familiarity and horseshoes...
Familiarity breeds contempt, and close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Perhaps as these folks come closer together on their common ground of fear and hate, the inbred contempt they have for the "other" will kick in and they'll start throwing enough hand grenades at each other to fracture any meaningful effect of the political horseshoes they're pitching at the rest of the electorate.