This really reminds me of what Rob Ford is going through.
The left refuses to accept when it is not in power. This column is about Avigdor Lieberman (DA! LIEBERMAN DA!!) but it's also about the left in general.
"Intellectuals from the immigrant
community whom I met over the years were appalled by the one-sided
consensus among Israeli academics and media, which presumed to dictate
the correct way of thinking -- who should be exalted and who should be
ostracized."
"Paradoxically, these immigrants -- people of profound
thought -- spotted totalitarian tendencies among Israel's veteran elite.
Because of that, since they had been the ones to ask for dialogue, they
were shocked to learn that they were being presented as a "threat to
democracy." In the countries they came from, that term was used to mark
enemies of the regime."
"He never sat idle, but expressed
many opinions that were not politically correct and that deviated from
what was acceptable in the dominant left-wing discourse.The Israeli elite was ashamed of
him as foreign minister; they prefer European cocktails with
Palestinians and do not like to be party poopers."
"...it is not Lieberman who stands at
the heart of these things. Rather, it is the phenomenon -- Lieberman as
a representative of a large segment of the population that regards the
Israeli Left as a childish gang whose doll was taken away from them
("They've stolen the country from us!"), stamping their feet as they
demand the doll back. "
