I expect the Democratic Party, and by extension all the rest of us too, will be working through the ramifications of November 2nd 2004 for at very least the next four years or so, so maybe there's no need to rush into this all so soon, but Matthew Yglesias has a case to make over at the Prospect that maybe it can't all be traced back to values after all:   more »

If voters had gone to the polls and heartily endorsed George W. Bush's policies in Iraq, Afghanistan, for the economy and all the rest, I would've been astounded, since I think those policies have been in a multitude of ways very demonstably wrong. But they would have been, at least, something that can be argued over and disagreed upon.

But I don't share George W. Bush's values, and I never will. And having won his reelection on the strength of those divisions within the American electorate, I find it very, very hard to imagine how he will be able to reach out to me and others like me now. Nor, given his practices to date, do I believe he is really even interested in trying.

I believe America is in great need of a reappraisal of its policies and practices in the world. We needed a change, and I believe George W. Bush will not offer us one, except perhaps for the worse. And for all the manifest dangers apparent in our current course, my fellow Americans do not appear to see or care.

Extremely disheartening.

Edit: Also more here.