Copied comment from a previous post, also appropriate here:

I fear that we are not taking account of the fact that Obama and his core supporters will never see that their failures are their own making, they will simply continue to believe they are right and anything that doesn’t work is due to a dishonest, racist, etc. opposition.

Exactly what Stalin believed… anything that went wrong, no matter how big or small, must be due to sabotage.

And if I may join wretchard in mixing my metaphors, we are headed for a constitutional crisis in 2011 and a 2012 election that will resemble Germany in 1930 as the DoJ gives the green light to all manner of vote fraud and intimidation (read, street thugs beating people) as long as it is of teh approved results. The liberals will NOT go quietly, any more than did the Nazis who had manifestly lost WW2 by September 1944, but made the last few months the bloodiest of the whole war.

If the American polity survives, liberalism will be discredited for a generation… but it is NOT a given that a democratic republic will survive this challenge.

I wish the GOP would get its head out of its ass and start a serious program of capacity building to challenge the Dems and esp the libs on voting issues—registration, purging the rolls of dead and ineligibles, pass laws requiring I.D. to vote and greatly tightening up on absentee and early voting, poll watchers supported by squdrons of attorneys and hired muscle if necessary—someone has to keep the SEIU purple shirts from beating and intimidating people. Assume the Dems will do anything they think they can get away with to steal the 2012 election (not to mention 2010 in many places), and do everything possible to thwart that. And, probably too late, but the GOP should have made a major strategic commitment to winning the key state-level races that will determine the 2012 redistricting. But I have no confidence the GOP leadership is capable of strategic thought, it’s just polls and focus groups. The GOP has still brought a knife to a gun fight as far as I can see.