Reading an article about blogger Andrew Sullivan, I came across this reference to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It links well with my ideas about fear and yellow peril
His readership figures surged after the 2001 massacres in New York and his home-town, Washington, DC. “I experienced 9/11 very personally,” he says. “The jihadists attacked my dream, my place—I felt like I had been beaten or raped. I succumbed to the fear a lot of us felt—panic really—about this country being in mortal danger. And neoconservatism seemed like the only ideology on the shelf with a plan for how to react immediately, and I turned to it.” ... He then savaged the “decadent left enclaves on the coast”, saying they “may well mount a fifth column” within the United States.
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