From a reader:

Good column, but what always makes my head spin isn’t so much the paranoia but the insouciance when reality bears it all out. Liberals always talk of jack-booted thugs of the Federal Government kicking in doors of innocent people in the middle of the night, but then they didn’t give a hoot when Bill Clinton did precisely that in Miami. Liberal paranoia goes haywire about the Federal Government shutting down free speech on the airwaves, but then they were all elated when Bill Clinton attempted to shut down free speech on the airwaves via the Fairness Doctrine. And so on, and so on. How they can do this without suffering cognitive dissonance is beyond me. (It reminds me of many mind boggling conversations I’ve had with the Japanese over the years.)