Back in 2007, Andrew Sullivan declared President Bush “the Weimar President.” As I wrote back then:
I can only guess that Andrew believes that President Bush is an elderly figurehead leading a weakened but relatively benign quasi-socialist administration suffering the ravages of hyper-inflation and that Hillary, Obama or whoever his successor is, is the next Hitler, about to install a terribly malevolent war machine and concurrent massive welfare state?
No of course not — Andrew saves that epithet that for Bush’s successor atop the GOP at least for the moment, as Pejman Yousefzadeh writes:
Readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Sarah Palin’s. I don’t think that she is a bad person, and I am sure that if I met her, I would find her charming; her emotional intelligence and her ability to win over observers is quite impressive. At the end of the day, I don’t think she has what it takes to be a spokesperson for the center-right, or the GOP, and I certainly don’t think she has what it takes to be President of the United States.
Of course, this viewpoint does not go far enough for Andrew Sullivan, who titles a blog post about Palin “Tomorrow Belongs To Her, Ctd.”
Who actually believes that the choice of words in that title was an accident?
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But then, as Dan Riehl noted yesterday, responding to Leon Wieseltier’s rebuke of Sullivan from within Sully’s former stomping grounds, the New Republic:
He’s capable of hating almost anything, or anyone. Right now, Sullivan hates everything from a single uterus, to the Christian faith and Zionism, among other things. Two years from now, he may be hating something else because, to know what Sullivan hates at any particular time, is only to know that which he opposes, not which he truly loathes.
Way back in 2002, Sullivan wrote a cogent, well-written, well-reasoned defense of Condi Rice against a barrage of spittle-flecked leftwing bigotry for Salon. No doubt naively, I still sometimes have a hard time equating the Sullivan of 9/11 to late 2003 with today’s model. The name’s the same, but not much else appears to be similar.
On the other hand, the same thing could be said, though not to the same degree, about his current publisher, as well.
Update: Related thoughts from Maggie’s Farm.
Sullivan writes in the Salon article “What it does mean is that you do not play the race card or any other card when engaging that person’s views. And one of the key signs that much of today’s left is actually, demonstrably illiberal, intolerant and reactionary, is the way in which this is now a common feature of leftist discourse.”
He didn’t want anyone calling Rice or Powell “house slaves” but he can call Palin a Nazi??? What a hypocrit. No, the title was no accident, just as the boy’s uniform in the movie is at first hidden from the audience, Sullivan and others of his ilk are certain that conservatives are also hiding a uniform. and that we have horns growing out of our heads. or both.
I am appalled by anti-Black comments on the conservative boards.
I am even more distressed by the lefts growing boldness to blame all human problems on Whites.
Even more so now that I have cynically decided that it is not just a human error but a strategy to maintain the race issue as their selling point.
I am with David Horowitz on this one, it only serves to alienate Whites and is a disservice to all American non-Whites.
It is a murky devilish and destructive strategy.
Oh, well since Obama saved us all that money by bringing the troops home and closing Gitmo, I guess I can’t complain. At least the top people in the Democratic party aren’t deceptive.