Anti-americanism in America

Two interesting commentaries in the British press today:

Timothy Garton Ash:

I'm getting seriously worried about anti-Americanism. Anti-Americanism in America, that is. Here are just a few of the things that I've heard travelling through blue, ie liberal, America over the two weeks since George Bush won the election. "The truth is, they just are stupid." (A New Yorker, of people in the red, ie conservative, states.) "The snakes." "Fascism." "Christian fascism." "I wanted to make a film about a time when young Americans fought against fascism and not for it." (A producer, explaining why he commissioned a film about the Spanish civil war.)

American blues, Guardian, 18 November 2004

He ends it by calling for a united defence of the enlightenment. In the Guardian, of all places...

...while Gerard Baker gleefully comments on the fate of the liberal policy establishment in Washington

It is not difficult to find people at the State Department who speak with open contempt of Mr Bush and his policies. Outside Manhattan, there was probably nowhere more miserable the day after his re-election in the entire country.

The day of reckoning has arrived for the Bush-hating foreign policy elite, The Times, 18 November 2004