Has the sheer awfulness of the Anglosphere Left ever been on such open display? Both the unscrupulousness and dishonesty of careerist white liberals and the clouds of gassy rhetoric with which the ethnic lobbies veil their acquisitive resentment? Say what you like about this campaign, we’re getting some good instruction in the nature of modern liberalism.

The only lingering doubt in my mind is still whether the whole thing wasn’t scripted in advance to make a Gore-Clinton ticket inevitable. “See how divided we are! We need a uniter, a healer! But who can we find? Ah, wait …”