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Many Democrats striving to replace President Trump are, while execrating him, paying him the sincerest form of flattery: imitation.

And of the fact that the president has repeatedly execrated the invasion of Iraq that Bolton advocated.

This man they’d execrated and denounced had shocked the world—not just by being his shocking self but by winning; nobody expected him to win!—and yet from them this evoked no reaction.

Though the Democrats’ advantage over the GOP in voter identification is not particularly large — eight points, according to Gallup — 24 percent of Americans now accept the no-longer execrated label “liberal,” up seven points since 1992.

They properly execrate Obama’s executive high-handedness that expresses progressivism’s traditional disdain for the separation of powers that often makes government action difficult.