Joseph Bottom over at First Things takes a look at the rhetoric over at the Daily Kos.
“When faced with monsters, we have to be monstrous ourselves.” Well, no, but even if it were so, think one step deeper: What happens when the monsters are merely in your mind? When they are ordinary politicians whose views you so strongly reject that you have to elevate them into monsters to explain to yourself why they could hold such mistaken views?
This is the blade by which politics turns to bloodshed.
As any brief perusal of the leftosphere will demonstrate, this is alarmingly the rule rather than the exception. It was easy to dismiss this as lunacy in 2004 — has it gotten any better in the years since?