My German dictionary says that Schadenfreude is a feeling of malicious delight in the discomfort of others. The element of Schadenfreude was especially strong in the recent sad election, especially among some of our liberal friends. And almost all of it at the expense of poor Jimmy Carter.

No political leader has ever deserved more completely to drop into oblivion than poor Jimmy. Still, there was a kind of nasty crowing on the part of some independent ...