In 1972, after Richard Nixon beat George McGovern in the biggest landslide ever, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael was stunned. “How can that be?” she said. “No one I know voted for Nixon.”
In 2002, the liberal cocoon is alive and well. Witness this rant from a salon.com columnist:
I said that I was going to write for Salon again, and do anything I could to help the Resistance.Is there a resistance? you may well ask. Well, maybe it’s not quite as organized or heroic as the French Resistance — yet. But the plates of the Earth are shifting. Do you know a single person who supports any of this administration’s policies, in any way at all? I mean, besides your relatives?
This after a historic midterm triumph for the Bushies. Imagine all those liberals gathered around their televisions, watching president Bartlett win by a landslide on The West Wing, drawing succor from the warm glow of their electronic hearths. Living in an imaginary world that validates their delusions.
There’s a word for such people – kooks.
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