fpb | AFTER THE BLOODLESS CANNAE

For the record and in no uncertain terms. Last night was a disaster. A candidate who was extremist in every way, who had not shown any pronounced managing ability, who had been responsible for the most short-sighted and obstinate foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson, and whose shortcomings ought to have been clear to everyone, was tided into success by pure brute media power, applied without stint or shame, to the point where, outside America, nobody except a few underground persons like me have any idea of the real Obama, and that even inside America most of the populace has never heard of Fast And Furious and takes the Administration narrative on Banghazi for Gospel.

But reality is reality. Americans may be so bamboozled by the media as not to realize what is going on, but what is going is going on and will result in political disaster. Meanwhile, an election won by such means, and against such an opponent, certainly does nothing to change MY views as to what is right and wrong. Triumphalism about "gay marriage", abortion and the other horrors of this administration will be met with unchanging and implacable opposition; the more important now, the more the heights of our society conspire to force them on us.