Look, the context is opposition to the invasion of civil liberties. While anti-Nader liberals temporize and Democrats from Lieberman to Barney Frank support the war, some Rightists have spoken up about the administration's corporate statism. Good on them.
Here's the context: "Ralph Nader delivered a powerful speech against the war and the various green parties have all issued decent statements. The ACLU has shown understanding of the necessity for broad coalitions of left and right to defend the Constitution. It has brought together left civil libertarians with such icons of the far right as Paul Weyrich, Grover Norquist, Phyllis Schlafly, Bob Barr and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, recruiting all these names to the terms of its opposition to the Patriot Act." --CGE
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> C. G. Estabrook wrote (citing Counterpunch):
>
> >They go on to suggest an interesting list of allies in opposition to the
> >war on terrorism
>
> These include: "Paul Weyrich, Grover Norquist, Phyllis Schlafly, Bob
> Barr and the Competitive Enterprise Institute." Interesting indeed.
> So Roosevelt's New Deal was cribbed from Mussolini, presumably making
> it bad, but all the evil that Weyrich & Co. embody can be overlooked?
>
> Crackpot unrealism or crackpot realism - an inspiring choice!
>
> Doug
>