The following quote, slamming Beck, is not from a flaming progressive. It is from the immoderate Bill Kristol, no stranger to loony-conservatism. It’s good to see some conservatives stand up to the extremists, instead of exploiting them. (Pallin™ anyone? Someone should trademark Reagan™ to stop people from using his name. So long as Raygun stays in the public domain.)
[H]ysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.