Peter Hitchens pulls no punches:

As the polluted flood (it is not a tide; it will not go back down again) of spite, greed and violence washes on to their very doorsteps, well-off and influential Left-wingers at last meet the filthy thing they have created, and which they ignored when it did not affect them personally.

No doubt they will find ways to save themselves. But they will not save the country. Because even now they will not admit that all their ideas are wrong, and that the policies of the past 50 years – the policies they love – have been a terrible mistake. I have heard them in the past few days clinging to their old excuses of non-existent ‘poverty’ and ‘exclusion’.

Unfortunately, we have the same problem in this country. Fortunately, we’re not quite as far gone, at least in many states.

More (depressing) thoughts from Mark Steyn and Charles Crawford.

[Update a while later]

Thoughts on “liberal” psychoses.