Dana Loesch is the national spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association. She's also a rightwing radio host, a conservative celebrity, and an occasional guest on CNN, which charmingly believes that giving people like Dana Loesch (and Jeffrey Lord, and Corey Lewandowski) some run on television will immunize it from the unmoored wrath of the vulgar taking yam in the White House. (How's that strategy been working for you, Jeff?) Dana Loesch also is very close to sounding like an out-and-out fascist who works for people like Wayne LaPierre, who behaves like one.

Ms. Loesch first came on my radar when she used her radio platform to give aid and comfort to armed sedition during the standoff between law enforcement and cranky bigoted freeloader Cliven Bundy. This, of course, qualified her handsomely for her present gig, which includes making promotional videos like this one here, which we bring you courtesy of ThinkProgress, and of journalist Jeff Sharlet, who first flagged it:

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They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. They use their movie stars and singers and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again. And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance. All to make them march, make them protest, make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia and smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law abiding — until the only option left is for police to do their jobs and stop the madness. And when that happens, they'll use it as an excuse for their outrage. The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.

At the same gathering at which they unveiled this video, LaPierre, bats flying out of either ear, upped the ante.

"It's up to us to speak up against the three most dangerous voices in America: academic elites, political elites, and media elites. These are America's greatest domestic threats."

Look, free speech and all that. If Loesch and her unhinged boss want to sound like the Khmer Rouge, or like Franco, in front of the whole nation for the purposes of selling more weaponry, well, that's a sad fact of life here in the United States of America. (Still waiting for them to get outraged at the police killing of law-abiding gun owner Philando Castile; Loesch showed more sympathy for Cliven Bundy's cows.) But this kind of thing, from an organization with outsized political clout at all levels of the government, tends toward incitement. Also, in the immortal words of the late Charlie Skinner, "the clenched fist of truth" is some huckleberry bad writing.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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