The Donkey Is Looking a Lot Like an Ostrich
Discussing who should be Time’s “Man of the Year” (an annual act of hubris I’ve ignored since the 80s) Hugh Hewitt marvels at the current state of denial:
The weeks following the election have been a revelation. There is hardly a whisper on the center-left about being out of step with the country’s majority, of massive electoral miscalculation, of chagrin at losing Iowa for goodness sake. A thunderous Republican victory–wide and deep–is almost a non-event for the theoreticians of the left.
Chris Matthews, on Monday night, deemed the Falluja terrorists as “not bad guys” and was off to lead the lynch mob in search of a nameless Marine who is said to have acted with too little concern for the rules of war. Cognescenti are worried about a purge at the CIA (the same folks who have been calling for a massive overhaul of the nation’s intelligence structure) and about Bush loyalists being installed at State and Justice. Nowhere–except perhaps with James Carville–is there even the beginning of understanding at what happened on November 2.
Well, give them some time. Another dozen years ought to do it.
