I've been trying to come up with the most rabid and unreasonable response to the Bush victory. There are a lot of good candidates:
The front page of the Daily Mirror in London: "How can 59, 054, 087 people be so DUMB?"
Gary Wills in the New York Times: "It's the end of The Enlightenment."
James Wolcott of Vanity Fair: "Good, Go Ahead, America, Choke on Your Own Vomit, You Deserve to Die." (There may have been some irony intended which I missed. On the other hand he admits to living on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his three ocicats Roland, Jasper, and Henry.)
Lawrence Martin in the Globe and Mail: “The world, his election opponents believed, could not withstand four more years of Bible Belt imperialism. Now they've got it. The impressive triumph of the radical right on Tuesday has indeed broken the historical consensus. America has moved outside the box. It is in a new, potentially toxic territory.”
A blogger: "I'll be spending my energy looking for a secular country where I can beleive [sic] that the majority of the population values and can discern intelligence, honesty, integrity, tolerence,[sic] diversity, community; some place I can be proud to raise my kids...it no longer is America."
Maureen Dowd in the New York Times: Dick Cheney "is creating the sort of "democracy" he likes. One party controls all power in the country. One network serves as state TV. One nation dominates the world as a hyperpower. One firm controls contracts in Iraq."
For now this is my favourite:
At Harvard a Republican student was yelling the phrase "I love America! I love democracy!" in the hallway, and a colleague exploded at [him]: "It's completely inappropriate to express your homophobic views like that!"