extreme right-wing nut. The titles of his books hints at it:
_Therapy Culture_, _Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear_. His
Sarah Palin as a "witch". That she has deeply troubling policies
doesn't matter to him. Bashing the "PC-crowd" and support an extreme
right-wing nut is too good a thing for him to pass up. Before that, his
paranoid commie.
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