Jeff Jacoby is a Boston Globe columnist of the right. I like him personally, and he is exceedingly smart. I appreciate some of his columns; others I don't. His piece opposite the editorial page on Sunday was a mixed bag. For one and preposterously, he tried to link George Galloway, "the radical British anti-war parliamentarian" who's been purged from the Labour Party, to mainstream Democrats. But he also made an important point made first, as Jacoby acknowledged, by former TNR senior editor and now Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer about the existence of a psychological malaise called the Bush Derangement Syndrome. This is defined by psychiatrist Krauthammer, (M.D., Harvard Medical School) as "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency--nay, the very existence of George W. Bush." Jacoby musters devastating indications of this phobia among many Democrats. A Rasmussen poll inquired whether "Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance?" Fully 35 percent responded that he did know. 26 percent were agnostic on the question. This is nuttiness of a very high order, and it makes me tremble for the party...and for the country. Another poll (Jacoby doesn't tell us which one) asks whether the respondent wanted--wanted, not expected--George Bush's "new security strategy" to succeed. Among Democrats, 49 % "either hoped that the US plan would fail or couldn't make up their minds." There were plenty of isolationists in the Republican party during the thirties and forties. But that didn't mean that they wanted FDR to lose to Hitler and Tojo.