Once upon a time the word “extremist” actually meant something. Osama Bin Laden comes to mind, along with the likes of Timothy McVeigh and Theodore Kaczynski, the “Unabomber.”
The Britannica Dictionary defines an extremist as “someone who has extreme ideas about politics, religion, etc.” as in: “A group of extremists took several hostages.”
Today, however, it seems that everyone is an extremist: “If you don’t agree with me, you are an extremist.” At least, that would appear to be our governor Gavin Newsom’s definition of the term. Last Sunday Gov. Newsom posted on “X” (what we used to know as Twitter) the following: “California’s high-capacity magazine ban was just STRUCK DOWN by Judge Benitez, an extremist, right-wing zealot with no regard to human life … Wake up America … Our gun safety laws will continue to be thrown out by NRA-owned federal judges …”
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Terrific analysis of a very important issue of the day being corrupted by a Governor with an agenda directed at demonizing any opposition to his point of view.