I think this guy is being a jerk, but nevertheless, I think he has the basic outlines of what is going to happen exactly right.
Whether he’s reelected or not, I think the party, the radical, conservative, right-wing party, is going to keep moving to the right. Keep getting rid of dissidents, purging dissidents...
For liberals to have the illusion that it’s going to change, or that they’re going to learn a lesson if Romney loses, is to make the same mistake liberals always make.
All the way back to Goldwater, liberals have expected Republicans to stop moving to the right after a defeat.
And they’re deluding themselves.
Every liberal pundit — Tony Lewis and James Reston in the Times, Richard Hofstadter in the New York Review of Books — back then predicted oblivion and, two years later, Reagan was elected governor of California and the rest is history....
The other thing that’s going to happen is: unbelievable rage at Obama. We’re going to see the rage of fanatics and spin keep ratcheting it up. The position has been — and this is even by relatively establishment people like Peggy Noonan, George Will — “He’s an incompetent. Americans can’t stand him. They think he’s a nice guy but he’s in over his head. This is an historic change to end this collectivist presidency.” Because underlying so much of this, in my view, is race, they’re going to be furious. They really felt they could knock him off easily.
So when that fails, they’re going to be very angry.
I think he is totally wrong about race being the motivation. Its ideology. They don't hate Obama because he is black - not enough of them for it to matter anyway - they hate Obama because of the extremism of their politics and their absolute rejection of moderation.
