Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's anti-government extremism is Mainstream Republican Conservatism now.

It doesn't seem like 20 years. 

Radio news had a special announcement that a building in Oklahoma City was bombed. When the news said that the Murrah Federal Building had an IRS headquarters I said it was a domestic terrorist. My co-workers ignored me and discussed bombing Libya. A few days later they charged Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. 

The Miami Herald gets it: 

"But that was then. Twenty years ago, the idea of anti-government resistance seemed confined to a lunatic fringe operating in the shadows beyond the mainstream.  

Twenty years later, it is the mainstream, the beating heart of the Republican Party. And while certainly no responsible figure on the right advocates or condones what he did, it is just as certain that McVeigh’s violent antipathy toward Washington, his conviction that America’s government is America’s enemy, has bound itself to the very DNA of modern conservatism. 

It lives in Grover Norquist’s pledge to shrink government down until “we can drown it in the bathtub,” in Chuck Norris’ musing about the need for “a second American revolution,” in Michele Bachmann’s fear that the census is an evil conspiracy. It lives in dozens of right-wing terror plots documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center since the 1995 bombing, including last year’s murder of two police officers and a Walmart shopper by two anti-government activists in Las Vegas. It lives in Cliven Bundy’s armed standoff with federal officials"

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