* A pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism
   * has infected the Republican Party. Here’s new data to prove it:

* 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall)
   believe that Obama is a socialist.

* 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama
   is a Muslim

* 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the
  Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United
  States and so is not eligible to be president"

* 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama
  is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"

* Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall)
  say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

These numbers all come from a brand-new Harris poll, inspired in part by a
new book Wingnuts. It demonstrates the cost of the campaign of fear and
hate that has been pumped up in the service of hyper-partisanship over the
past 15 months. We are playing with dynamite by demonizing our president
and dividing the United States in the process. What might be good for
ratings is bad for the country.

The poll, which surveyed 2,230 people right at the height of the
health-care reform debate, also clearly shows that education is a barrier
to extremism.

Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to believe
such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better are less easily
duped. It’s a reminder of what the 19th-century educator Horace Mann once
too-loftily said: "Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies  of
the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."

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