They could have said libertarians, which are Republicans with sunglasses, but they said Republicans, specifically. “I hate conservatives,” Tierney quoted Stone as saying, “but I really hate liberals.” That, again, was 2001, when George W. Bush had just gone to war in Afghanistan—a war that, along with its fraudulent, for-profit spin-off, Iraq—would spend the next several decades forcing the children of impoverished Americans to massacre the children of impoverished brown people overseas. At the time, in those months after 9/11,
