What we're seeing, and hearing, and certainly smelling is the liberal rhetorician's high-tone equivalent of those old Impeach Earl Warren signs. And this, too, will rust away. These slogans are being mouthed not by kluxers at angry rallies but professors on prestigious campuses. Full fathom five all that bitterness lies, waiting to be dredged up from the bottom at every constitutional crisis, or even hope of one. There's nothing like a new Tempest to stir old themes to sluggish life.
Bitterness calls to bitterness across the eras.
Ours is so remarkably continuous a national history, even our lost causes have a continuity to them. They use the same battle cries. Alan Dershowitz was full of impotent fury even for a cast member of the Geraldo show, vowing he would never cease denouncing this Supreme Court, or at least five to seven members of it. Somehow the court and country will survive. It would be unfair to compare Alan Dershowitz's style to Orval Faubus'.