In my view, that anger over losing the election is what fueled the unrelenting attacks against Clinton. In the end, the repeated attempts to undo Bill Clinton have led to the undoing of the conservative wing of the Republican Party. That message was sent by the American people in the 1998 off-year elections. With their characteristic self-righteousness, the conservatives decided to teach the American people a harsher lesson, as if they were dealing with a recalcitrant child, so they launched the impeachment spectacle, a riveting example of the abuse of power that unfolded daily on our television screens and introduced into America's collective memory such odious characters as Linda Tripp and Ken Starr. It is my belief that the conservative wave that began in the 80's has crested and is receding.
People are tired of the fighting.
They are tired of the hypocrisy. They are tired of the anger. The American people have made it plain that they reject the bedrock assumption of Ronald Reagan's conservatism, which is that government is something bad. We the people DID form a more perfect union, and as the oldest continuously functioning democracy on the planet, we have a mature understanding of just what the government should be doing for us. What we don't want is mindless partisan warfare.