As Thomas Frank demonstrates in his book, What's the Matter with Kansas?, grassroots movement conservatives have been conditioned to hate -- yes, hate -- all things "Liberal," specially the uber-caricature that conservative demagogues (like Ms Coulter) have drawn of "Ivy League Liberals" or, more broadly, of "Elites" imperiously ruling from their Liberal urban centers, far removed from the "heartland" -- where real, salt-of-the-earth, Americans live. And, yet, as Mr Frank writes, while grassroots conservatives go on loathing these phantom "Elites" of their imaginations, the real elites -- the corporatists, fascists and fundamentalists religious demagogues -- lie, deceive and condescend to their blind flock of conservative followers, whom remain ever obedient and distracted.
And now, Ms Coulter -- the product of an "Elite" education herself --, the poster girl for wingnuts everywhere, and one of the loudest mouth pieces in today's conservative movement, strays from the script and let's her true roots show:
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