Leftists, who see their ideological brethren as the most balanced, enlightened and compassionate of Americans, find themselves in a faux fret, oh, so worried, they say, that many conservatives are going bonkers.

It must be tough, some have written, for the remaining sane if benighted conservatives when we have all these nutcase Rightists contending President Obama was not a citizen at birth and all those nasty, generally alienating, Rush Limbaugh-like voices that aim to lead what’s left of the dwindling, out-of-joint movement.