Letters to the Editor
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Yes, but it's still maddening
I agree with this post emphatically, and also with its value. But I want to urge Glenn to continue with his media coverage too, in addition to the substantive matters. In the Washington Post today Fred Hiatt also talks about the need to restore habeas corpus and about the Democrats' responsibility to do so. It sticks in my gullet that he should engage in snarkiness against the Democrats in this issue, even though I agree that they have been spineless. The outrage is that people like Fred Hiatt enabled an entire political party, the Republicans, to betray America and American ideals so utterly and so remorselessly that no one even calls them on it any more. We just expect it of them, and expect that Fred Hiatt can blame Democrats for not stopping them. I can handle Glenn leaning on the Democrats because that's what's needed. But for Fred Hiatt to do so makes me furious, as if Fred Hiatt could claim to be on the side of the angels on this issue. Because of his editorial, I read Glenn's post and feel a sinking of the heart. If the whole question becomes whether the Democrats have done right, and we don't keep shouting about how the Republicans have done wrong, they will rise again, at least among the Harvey Mansfield "manly" types who worship shit-kicking strength over civilization and kindness.