Am I a jackbooted Trotskyist working as a secret agent of Karl Rove?
By Stephen Gowans I ignored my own rule: You can never, ever, be too simple, so spell it out in black and white. Which isn’t to say I’m only occasionally remiss in following the rule. I often am. But I shouldn’t be. If I weren’t, I probably wouldn’t have been inundated with as many angry replies to “A more sensible alternative to replacing Bush with a Democrat” from readers who’ve arrived at as many interpretations of what I was trying to say, as there are interpretations of the Bible. Indeed, within the last 24 hours, I’ve received notes accusing me of occupying almost every possible point on the political continuum (with Democrat, predictably, left out). I’ve been described, variously, as: A fascist. A right-winger. A secret operative of Karl Rove. A Trotskyist. A member of the International Socialist Organization (ISO)…in disguise. A Trotskyist fascist (whatever that is.) An anarchist. What’s more, I’ve been accused of making one women’s husband lose her job, and others have deman
