Wingnuts

A bad craziness is snaking through America in the first years of the Obama administration:THE WINGNUTS ARE ON THE ATTACKWHAT’S A WINGNUT?A wingnut is someone on the far-right or far-left wing of the political spectrum—professional partisans, unhinged activists and paranoid conspiracy theorists.Campaigning as the antidote to polarized politics, Barack Obama promised to transcend the old divides of left and right, black and white, red states and blue states. But during his first year in office, he presided over an eruption of hate and hyper-partisanship that mocks the pledge upon which millions…