Leftist author Jane Smiley writes her take on why America voted for George W. Bush, two days after his landslide re-election. It was published in Slate, not as a one-off but as part of a series by hand-picked "wise liberals" about why the left has lost five of the past seven presidential elections.
What she writes is...shocking. Not because we haven't heard it a million times before. Not even because it is so self-evidently false in virtually every particular. But because in reading it, it hits you that she -- and millions of others like her -- honestly believe it. And it's not just ideological. No, these people really, genuinely hate us.
God help us. -- RDM
