No, not at all. Members of the Right are commonly referred to here as Wing Nuts and a variety of other "pejorative terms".
And I am guilty of using that specific pejorative term and others as well. That ends today.
The term wing nuts does not refer to the members of the right; it refers to the lunatic fringes on either end of the political spectrum. Literally -- the nuts way out on the wings. An odd place for nuts, perhaps, but we ain't talking normal biology here, Clarence.
The following is from the back cover of the Book "Wingnuts --How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America," by John Avlon, published in 2010 by Beast Books, New York, NY.
What's a wingnut? A wingnut is someone on the far-right or far-left wing of the political spectrum -- professional partisans, unhinged activists and [paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Avlon is the creator of CNN's hit segment, "Wingnuts of the Week", and is a Daily Beast senior political columnist.
