PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939.

Shot: Andrew Sullivan, then during his stint with the Atlantic, a year away from becoming the world’s foremost uterus detective, dubs George W. Bush “The Weimar President” in August of 2007. As I wrote back then in response:

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?

Chaser: Angry Professor Eric Alterman Calls For Andrew Sullivan to Be Put in a Concentration Camp, this past Sunday, i.e. September 11th: