the urge to purge Nader

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>From Nathan Newman's list of Nader napalmers:
>       Chicago Sun-Times' Roeper writes, "Ralph Nader is a jerk," who seeks
> media attention like Pat Buchanan and Jesse Jackson, and "he can match them
> in the ego department as well." And "isn't it great for Ralph that instead
> of walking around as a nostalgic trivia question from the 1970s -- the
> activist equivalent of John Ritter -- that he was getting so much attention
> again. Congratulations. Jerk," (11/9).

This trivialization of Nader's early accomplishments reminds me of reading
transcripts of the Moscow purge trials.  But I don't know who the Bolshie
equivalent of John Ritter would be.  Mayakovsky?
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