Au contraire, I distinctly remember a middlebrow opinion-magazine article in which a Clintonista argued with a straight face that, not only had Clinton achieved a mere mandate, but the Left as a whole had won history after the Republican Thermidor, and that it was now time for the Clinton Administration to move confidently and finally to make certain kinds of highly objectionable and divisive Rightist discourse punishable by law, and drive it out of the public forum permanently.
Of course, the author had Rush in mind.
Au contraire, I distinctly remember a middlebrow opinion-magazine article in which a Clintonista argued with a straight face that, not only had Clinton achieved a mere mandate, but the Left as a whole had won history after the Republican Thermidor, and that it was now time for the Clinton Administration to move confidently and finally to make certain kinds of highly objectionable and divisive Rightist discourse punishable by law, and drive it out of the public forum permanently.
Of course, the author had Rush in mind.
I fail to see the connection between the quoted passage and your statement. Go back and re-read the sentence you quoted.