The unrelenting speed and undiminished fervor with which liberals are killing the careers of their former comrades in politics, the media, and the arts may appear unseemly and contradictory at first glance. Yet based on historical precedent, it's also remarkably predictable, perhaps even axiomatic. It's what often happens when the Left tastes power.
The Left exhibits a compulsion for executing its own, once some are no longer regarded pure enough, ideological enough, or radical enough. This pattern of behavior dates back to the original left-wing triumph, the French Revolution.
A man plowing snow in Winchendon in north central Massachusetts saw a car go off the road and into a pond. The driver got out on his own and sat on his roof, but he was in trouble when the car started sinking fast; a firefighter threw a rope to the man, who tied is around himself and was towed to shore.
