Welcome to the Fringe

Rosa Brooks:

Opposing the war in Iraq isn't fringe anymore — it's become part of what defines ordinary Americans.

You wouldn't know it, though, from listening to the pundits. As far as many in the "mainstream" media are concerned, those who oppose the war in Iraq are still oddball extremists.

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Jonah Goldberg, in his Thursday post-mortem on the outcome, comes to a similar conclusion: "The Democratic Party is, simply, a McGovernite party…. But … that is not necessarily where the voters are." In the New York Daily News, Michael Goodwin doesn't bother with subtlety, calling Lieberman's defeat a win for "the wackadoo wing of the party."

No, fellas. What happened was just that the whole democracy thing worked just the way it's supposed to, for once. A majority of citizens oppose the war in Iraq, so they went to the polls and voted for the guy who shares their views, instead of the guy who doesn't.

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Neoconservatism: It's the new fringe.

Of course, "The Dean" and his ilk will continue to look down their noses at the majority while receiving Perle's of wisdom at the latest Georgetown cocktail party. The crab puffs must be laced with something.


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