"...fanatics unconstrained by democratic politics..."

Q:
What could be worse than the Bush administration?

A:
Another Bush Administration.

Robert Reich contemplates the horror:

The American Prospect - Apr 01, 2004 - Musings about a second Bush term typically assume another four years of the same right-wing policies we've had to date. But it'd likely be far worse. So far, the Bush administration has had to govern with the expectation of facing American voters again in 2004. But suppose George W. Bush wins a second term. The constraint of a re-election contest will be gone. Knowing that voters can no longer turn them out, and that this will be their last shot at remaking America, the radical conservatives will be unleashed. (more)