Paul is — very, very slowly… inching forward the idea that most of Tangerine’s followers… are ignoramuses. [As is Tangerine, hisself, of course.]

They simply do not understand, or do not care to understand… what WWII was all about.

What it achieved. There is no… “uniparty”, and these idiots are titling at windmills.

But Paul says it so softly… that no one will notice. Yikes. But I guess progress… is progress, however miniscule on the morning after the lie-fest.

Thus he quotes Clegg as channeling Burke — as follows:

…The world order that the West has championed since World War II has left the United States by far the richest and most powerful country on the planet. We have not seen an “end of history” and a worldwide triumph of liberal democracy, but things could be a lot worse.

The Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc have disintegrated, there have been no nuclear exchanges, there are few Communist countries left (and by far the largest of them has a semi-capitalist economy), the developing world is indeed developing because of free markets, and Islamism is on the ropes. With American foreign policy’s blend of realism and idealism, and its cautious interventionism, we are also looked up to and followed, albeit sometimes grudgingly….

The jingoistic nonsense to the side — this is worth accepting, as… progress.

But will Tangerine ever grow into any form of functional adult (here entering his eighth decade?!) — on these issues?

Not so long as the churlish man-boys at Powerline and Ringside reward his malign stupidity.

So it goes. Damnation.