The Problem With the Far Left Mind

Andrew, for all his recent faults, still understands the true nature of our country. It's a lesson that liberals could learn from, if they were wiling to admit that they have at least as many problems as the red voters that they hate. Sullivan hits the nail on the head with his consideration of what went wrong for the left in this election:

This is what the left has lost sight of. Americans tend to believe that talent needs no apology; that action is often better than complaint; that their own country, despite its many faults, is still a force for great good in the world. The left tends to view things a little differently. The most shocking manifestation was the way in which the far left saw 9/11 as an indictment of America, rather than of Jihadist nihilism. A more anodyne version was the way in which the Kerry campaign tried to reassure Americans of Kerry's commitment to national defense by playing up his Vietnam record, rather than unleashing him to rage against the evil of terror. The legitimate criticisms of the Iraq war seemed at times to emanate from a welter of whining, rather than from a determined attempt to win in Iraq, and from righteous, well-deserved anger that Bush had botched it. Facing a world of unprecedented danger, the Democrats still offered little in the way of a constructive message about what they would do proactively to defeat the enemy. For all his faults, Bush did.

The piece is fairly short and I recommend it for reading, I couldn't have said most of it better myself.