University of San Diego Law School professor Gail Heriot blogs on a recent conference at CUNY entitled “Understanding and Combating Contemporary Shifts to the Right.”

This tells us much about the mindset of the statists in power. The “leave us alone coalition” (Grover Norquist’s phrase) has been annihilated politically over the last four years (thanks mostly to a batch of “big-government conservatives”) and still the Left talks about “shifts to the right.” Maybe they’re afraid that some Americans will come out of the Obama trance and grasp that politicizing the nation through and through is a very bad idea. I particularly like the comment on the similarity between those of us who continue to oppose the liberal fascists and the kulaks in the 1930s. No, I’m not suggesting that the U.S. is going to have its own gulag, but it may well be true that the far-left ACORN types regard us not as fellow Americans who don’t agree with their objectives, but as people who must be dealt with.