From Andrew Sullivan:

I was walking through my neighborhood the other day - in D.C.'s hyper-p.c. Adams Morgan - and I swear I've been seeing a few more anti-war posters since the war ended. The signs are perhaps expressions of some kind of rage at reality, especially a reality that has surely undermined some of the anti-Bush left's cherished nostrums - that American military intervention is always evil, that nothing good can come from any Bush policy, that Iraqis will loathe being liberated, and so on.
Some people on the left whom I respect have also gone off what can only be called the deep end. Michael Lind is sadly one. Paul Krugman is another. And now Harold Meyerson, the newish executive editor of the American Prospect joins the frothing fray. Meyerson has often been a thoughtful, lively writer of the left, and I was proud to run his often-provocative pieces at The New Republic. But his latest cover-story for his own magazine is just, well, er, you read it. It's titled, "The Most Dangerous President Ever." Ever. Worse than Nixon. Worse than the left's previous nemesis, Reagan. Worse than Hoover. In fact, Meyerson can think of only one precedent as horrifying:



He, too, had a relentlessly regional perspective, and a clear sense of estrangement from that part of America that did not support him. He was not much impressed with the claims of wage labor. His values were militaristic. He had dreams of building an empire at gunpoint. And he was willing to tear up the larger political order, which had worked reasonably well for about 60 years, to advance his factional cause. The American president - though not of the United States - whom George W. Bush most nearly resembles is the Confederacy's Jefferson Davis.

Yes, we've now sunk to another level of demonization, as Bush seems to be doing to the left what Clinton did to parts of the right: make them so nuts they cannot even think straight.