For those who don't know, Ms. Noonan is an unreconstructed Irish Catholic, comfortably at home in the arms of her faith. Today she is in high dudgeon about anti-Catholic comments in some of the Podesta, et al. emails that have been leaked.
The big fact of the week, however, has to do with these words: They don’t like us. The Democrats, progressives and left-liberals who have been embarrassed by the latest WikiLeaks dump really hate conservatives, or nonleftists. They don’t like half the people of the country they seek to control! They look at that half with disdain and disrespect. Their disdain is not new—“bitter clingers,” “basket of deplorables.” But here it’s so unashamed and eager to express itself.There is a world of red vs. blue hate in this country. If Clinton wins, as it now appears she might, it will only get worse. In four years we'll look back on Trump as a reasonable guy much as Mitt Romney is now viewed, in hindsight. His successor, four years downstream, may more closely resemble a media-savvy David Duke, an out-of-the-closet hater.
It’s the big fact of American life now, isn’t it? That we are patronized by our inferiors.
