The right's new fixation: An angry old white man who thinks freedom means not having to follow the law.
In what world is Cliven Bundy, the 68-year-old rancher who refuses to pay his tab for grazing cattle on federal lands, a patriot?
He drapes himself in the American flag but says “I don’t recognize the United States government as even existing,” while attracting a collection of thugs with assault rifles in the Nevada desert to force the Bureau of Land Management to back down from a court-ordered confiscation of his cattle.
One of Bundy’s supporters, Tea Party leader Richard Mack, who is in the National Rifle Association’s Hall of Fame, says he plans to use women as human shields in a violent showdown with law enforcement. Fox News host Sean Hannity has all but encouraged a violent confrontation.
Bundy and his defenders certainly aren’t patriots. What would you call them?