Post-Bush Stress Disorder

newsweek.com — Democrats are now at risk of post-Bush stress disorder, a trauma that can cripple their efforts to adjust to everyday life in a new era. Their longtime enemy — potent Republicans — is gone, a mere memory of pain. But Republican ways of thinking have infected the minds of too many Democrats. More than a few have fallen into the GOP habit of selling out to corporate interests, pandering to banks, and reflexively assuming that just because the Pentagon recommends escalation in Afghanistan, it must be necessary. These habits will have to be broken if the Democrats are to stay in power.

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