Margaret Drabble, the eminent British novelist, has an especially vile, loathesome column in the London Telegraph. One of her milder, more balanced comments:
My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.
Okay, John, you were around back in the day.
Were they this nuts back then?
I mean, they were often nuts, granted. But were they this nuts, this much of the time?
Acid reflux is fashionable? SHe’s just jealous that her sister, A. Byatt, gets her books made into movies by loathesome Americans.
Well, Dean, back in my day the British anti-Americanists wore red coats and saluted their own George (III)….