Bush's Secularist Triumph The left apologizes for religious fanatics. The president fights them. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, at 7:34 AM PT Many are the cheap and easy laughs in which one could indulge at the extraordinary, pitiful hysteria of the defeated Democrats. "Kerry won," according to one e-mail I received from Greg Palast, to whom the Florida vote in 2000 is, and always will be, a combination of Gettysburg and Waterloo. According to Nikki Finke of the LA Weekly, the Fox News channel "called" Ohio for Bush for reasons too sinister to enumerate. Gregory Maniatis, whose...