I may have a longer post coming later this weekend about the bizarreness of the Kavanaugh situation, but for now I wanted to flag a thread by Jeet Heer. In trying to explain away the Kavanaugh hearings, HUD Secretary and brilliant-until-he-Thackeried-his-brain Ben Carson blamed it on a plot by a previously unknown to me 19th Century British democratic socialist group named the Fabian Society. Jeet Heer explains where Carson got this bonkers idea, and while it is in SOME loose way connected to history, it is INDEED bonkers:
1. "Excuse me ma'am, I speak wingnut." Ben Carson's comments linking the Kavanaugh accusations to the Fabian Society might sound like gibberish. But if you are fluent in right-wing mythohistory, it's perfectly logical. https://t.co/zAd1jwF7VB— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 22, 2018
And yes, Elmer Fudd does play into the story. Read Jeet's thread.
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