Quote Originally Posted by 120mm View Post
Oh, they didn't go "mainstream", they just renamed it "The Democratic Underground".
Remember Free Republic during the Clinton administration? All the Clinton body count stuff, and how he was running blow out of Mena airport when he was governor? Portions of the left and right can go loco when they are in opposition.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics, By Richard Hofstadter. Harper’s Magazine, November 1964.
Hofstadter was wrong about Goldwater, but other wise nailed it.

This is the conspiracy theory de jour:
Republican IT Guru Dies In Plane Crash: Was Sought In Controversies Over E-Voting And Missing White House E-Mails; His Death Sparks More Controversy, CBS News, Dec. 23, 2008.