It’s the Illegitimacy, Stupid

In a letter to the editor of today’s New York Times, incoherent pseudoliberal Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic(an), says:

“It is true that there are liberals who hate the president (sic) so much that they abandon rational thought and assume that everything he does must be evil.”

No, there aren’t.

Everything that Gov. Bush does is by definition illegal because his rule is illegitimate. For the same reasons that oppressed peoples despise dictators everywhere, Bush is despised because his rule comes not from the people, but in spite of them.

A contributing factor, naturally, is the fact that everything Bush has done as been evil. Even if you accept Bush’s legitimacy–that makes you a minority in the polls–it’s hard to miss that.