Steyn to Europe: Drop Dead

Mark Steyn answers the European media consensus that Bush's reelection proves Americans are stupid, racist, gay-bashers and less "evolved"--in sum, Nazis:

If smug Europeans are going to coast on moron-Fascist sneers indefinitely, they'll be dooming themselves to ever more depressing mornings-after in the 2006 midterms, the 2008 presidential election, 2010, and beyond: America's resistance to the conventional wisdom of the rest of the developed world is likely to intensify in the years ahead. . .

[T]he American people were not expressing their "gay-loathin' ", so much as declining to go the [European Union] route and have their betters tell them what they can think. They're not going to have marriage redefined by four Massachusetts judges and a couple of activist mayors. That doesn't make them Bush theo-zombies marching in lockstep to the gay lynching, just freeborn citizens asserting their right to dissent from today's established church - the stifling coercive theology of political correctness enforced by a secular episcopate.

The restrictions on expression that [they see] as evidence of European enlightenment are regarded as profoundly unhealthy by most Americans. . . Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.

What was revealing about this election campaign was how little the condescending Europeans understand even about the side in American politics they purport to agree with. . .Uncowed by Islamists, undeferential to government, unshrivelled in its birthrates, Bush's redneck America is a more reliable long-term bet. Europe's media would do their readers a service if they stopped condescending to it.