I would have expected Glenn Reynolds, a law professor, and John Hinderaker, a lawyer, to be able to distinguish between (1) advocating that someone who has committed a capital offense be tried and executed and (2)advocating that the offender in question be murdered. But, as is so often the case, I would have been completely wrong. Are they suffering from PBDS (pro-Bush derangement syndrome)? We report, you decide.
Glenn is a reactionary in the most literal sense of the word. He doesn’t think; he reacts.
This does not surprise me, because I follow the dictum that whatever appalls Republicans reflects their deepest wishes. We already know that they believe in – and are trying to engineer more – kangaroo trials. And not just for Bill Clinton, atheist Saddam Hussein and foreign Muslims.
Their views are right out of Alice through the Looking Glass — announce the verdict, stage the execution, then organize the trial. I wish I were joking, but I am not.
I have long believed, and have written at my own place, that GWBush could appear on TV, sodomizing Glenn’s, or Hindrocket’s wives, snorting a mound of cocaine, defecate on the floor, turn to the camera and say “Fuck all y’all”, and the PBDS wingers would applaud, and immediately blog about his “steely-eyed vision, clarity and strengh of purpose, his virtue.”
Bastards.