Newt attempts to build the Wingnut T-1000, using mimetic polyalloys that, unlike the Nixon-era terminator, can reassemble the wingnut psyche shattered by contact with reality.

The piece is posited as a re-examination of recent history, but it contains not one whiff of self awareness or reflection. Note how he glibly dismisses Iraq, the biggest strategic f-up in US history, as a mere tactical error (the implication being that the GOP shouldn't be held accountable for it, just as FDR wasn't for Kasserine Pass).

He's been polishing this bit for a while, an it really is an extraordinary piece of work. As Richard Hofstadter might say, the quality of its pedantry is quite high. It's all built around the wingnut gospel that we're at war with hundreds of millions of undifferentiated Islamic fanatics who, being "irreconcilable," must either be killed or cowed into submission by bullet and bayonet.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid this dude may be on to something. All it takes to keep this madness going is a relatively small but concerted cadre of wingnuts. And if they're capable of reconstituting themselves in the wake of Dubya the Destroyer, we're in for a world of hurt for a long time to come.