What Explains the Mad Dog Quality of the Left? Mike Rappaport

Victor Davis Hanson tries to explain it:

Why do Republicans drive leftists so crazy these days? Liberaldemocrats are beginning to sound like rowdy students on spring break,shrieking and exhibiting themselves on camera.

The Democrats have not elected congressional majorities in 12 years,and they’ve occupied the White House in only eight of the last 26years. The left’s current unruliness seems a way of scapegoating othersfor a more elemental frustration – that they can’t gain a nationalmajority based on their core beliefs. More entitlements, higher taxesto pay for them, gay marriage, de facto quotas in affirmative action,open borders, abortion on demand, and radical secularism – theseliberal issues don’t tend to resonate with most Americans.