Friday, August 27, 2004

Neocon Amnesia

Charles Krauthammer, in 2000, writing approvingly:

But one leading American psychiatrist advanced a more nuanced view. Dr. Walter Reich, who had challenged the Kremlin by examining some of these dissidents--and, to its great embarrassment, finding them perfectly sane--argued that some Soviets had so thoroughly imbibed their own ideology that at some level they actually believed dissent was prima facie evidence of psychological disturbance.

But now in 2004, he says:

This [Democratic contempt for Dubya] is all quite unhinged. Good God. What if Bush is reelected? If they lose to him again, Democrats will need more than just consolation. They'll need therapy.

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