It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Beverly Garland.
This is where Muir is now, not just sneering at anyone who works for the government, but imagining a strip where he depicts their foes as faceless goons is somehow brilliant propaganda.
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I wonder when this fanatical hatred of the civil service (I mean, that IS pretty much who it is that these bloodthirsty goons are always freaking out about, isn't it?) started on the right. The '70s? 80s? The right always loathed the vast expansion of the federal government under Roosevelt but I'm not aware of these narratives taking hold in the several decades in the New Deal's wake.
ReplyDeleteIt's existed for a long time--there were jabs at them in the 50s--but this level of hatred was generally the property of the Birchers and other crazies, people who were seen as fringe-dwellers. But alas, they've successfully branded their awful to a broader audience. (Even if Muir is more or less the modern Bircher equivalent.)
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