The worldview Andrew Garland describes is common to many, maybe most, people. When they are teenagers. For most of us, it is gradually replaced by humility that results from the confrontation of our narcissistic fantasies with the real world. We fail a lot, because most of us actually try to do things, produce things. And the real world shows us, continuously, that we are all too fallible, all too limited.

Obama, as all of us who voted against him knew, and as increasing numbers of the formerly enchanted are finding out, never encountered such real world “push back.” He has been allowed by life to live on in his adolescent delusions about his own vast intellectual superiority. Being a somewhat smart, “clean” (Biden’s word) black man has meant that in the precincts he has frequented, no one dared challenge him seriously or inform him that he wasn’t quite as wonderful as he thought. So, I don’t know if it is “prejudice” or simply lingering narcissism plus developmental arrest.

PD Quig is of course right about the Left’s prepared battle space. But I think at least as big a factor is the celebrity/media culture we have surrendered to. As we know, the media also made John McCain, the “maverick.” But it was Obama, a man who had literally produced nothing in his entire career except self-promoting verbiage (and we wonder how much of that was ghost written), who was promoted into a super celebrity of messianic stature. This is a degenerated culture populated by more people who follow American idol and WWF than read books, or study history or politics. We are drunk with media, drunk with celebrity, drunk with groupthink delirium. We got the president we deserve. And we will now reap the consequences we deserve. Our cushy little fantasy life will now be stripped from us.