>In a word, I would say yes, that's exactly what he is doing. Though
>I would imagine Nader's contempt for the LI derives from the
>Chomsky-Vidal side rather than the nativist right.
There's more than a touch of the nativist about Vidal. He fetishizes pre-Civil War America, when only white men could vote, as some kind of republican ideal, and has professed a lot of sympathy for Western European anti-immigrant feeling. And Nader has a xenophobic streak, e.g. his hysteria about trade (and pornography imports!), and a petit bourgeois one (he's more interested in promoting competition than effective regulation). So it's not that much of a stretch for him to pander to the Bubba vote.
What kind of politics is this, that depends not on organization and institution-building but on momentary coalitions of the variously disaffected?
Doug