Democracy has been the biggest frustration of the president's opponents. It seemed to us, the carping critics, that this man was not terribly bright, not terribly thoughtful or well informed, not terribly honest, and in most other ways not up to the most important job in the world. But a large majority of people seemed not to mind. And so a consensus grew that if he lacked conventional mental and moral assets, he had some special magic.
Of course this sounds as if it was written about good old Georgie Boy. But the text comes (via
Atrios) from a 1986 Michael Kinsley op-ed. The whole piece is worth a read.
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