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The New Jonestown

The day after the election, I found myself behind a Vermont granola mobile bearing the sticker Bush Scares Me. And stuck in its wake on a winding country road, I found myself more bemused by its message with every passing mile. Even given the general emotional exhibitionism of the Democratic party—” I feel your pain,” etc.—it seems very odd to go around advertising one’s fear. When I was tootling around the Sunni Triangle last year, I was a little twitchy in the dodgier parts of Fallujah and Tikrit, but I don’t think it would have helped matters to paste Baathists Scare Me to the back of my beat-up rental car. When fear’s a bumper sticker, you’re probably safe.

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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human-rights activist.

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The New Jonestown

The day after the election, I found myself behind a Vermont granola mobile bearing the sticker Bush Scares Me. And stuck in its wake on a winding country road, I found myself more bemused by its message with every passing mile. Even given the general emotional exhibitionism of the Democratic party—” I feel your pain,” etc.—it seems very odd to go around advertising one’s fear. When I was tootling around the Sunni Triangle last year, I was a little twitchy in the dodgier parts of Fallujah and Tikrit, but I don’t think it would have helped matters to paste Baathists Scare Me to the back of my beat-up rental car. When fear’s a bumper sticker, you’re probably safe.