I Am Not Convinced

the Arizona shootings were other than the act of a lone nutter, but there are plenty who feel the far right bears some responsibility:

The New York Times, typically, tried to have it both ways, editorializing, “It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats, setting the nation on edge.”

The last assertion is a deliberate cover-up of the real source of the “gale of anger” building in America, which is the economic collapse that has devastated the lives of tens of millions of people, and for which no faction of the capitalist political establishment, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, has any solution.

A long news analysis in the Times provides valuable details on the ideological connections between Loughner and several of the more bizarre factions of the far right, but it nonetheless declares that the assassin’s political motivation cannot be known with certainty: “Investigators will have to wrestle with the difficult question of whether Mr. Loughner’s parroting the views of extremist groups was somehow more a cause of the shootings or simply a symptom of a troubled life.”

Much more is here.