I haven’t read Frum in such a lather for quite a while. I don’t agree with everything he says about the liberal blogs, but he’s onto something about the way in which rancid partisans on the web have undermined their own side:
The left-wing blogs have to take a considerable share of the blame for this disaster. They were a crucial part of the in-group conversation by which the most partisan Democrats convinced each other that the country feared and hated George W. Bush as much as they did. This delusion – combined with the decision to nominate a man to whom haughty disdain came all too naturally – pushed the Democrats to mistake after mistake and blinded them to opportunity after opportunity.
That goes for some of the bile on the right as well, mind you. The good news is that the blogosphere has grown so large and robust that we can now slag each other off with abandon. Attaguys!
The Dish 