They refuse to compromise because, to them, compromise is capitulation. If you go back to [Paranoid Style of American Politics author Richard] Hofstadter’s work when he’s talking about when the John Birch Society rode high, he talks about how conservatives would see people who disagree as political opponents, but reactionary conservatives saw them as evil. You can’t capitulate to evil.
-- Christopher Parker, co-author of
Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America Via the Daily Dish
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