With Mary Landrieu’s defeat, the Democrats have now lost almost the whole of her region. A number of them have taken it badly, saying they are too good for the South to want them and should bid the whole sinkhole goodbye.

Thus Michael Tomasky damns the “prejudice-infested place she comes from,” which he finds wanting in “tolerance, compassion, civic decency, trans-racial community” and all else that is good. He calls it a “nuclear waste site of choleric resentment.” “Forget about it,” he urges his party. “Forget the whole thing.”