The politics of hate & the unintended consequences

Just two years into his term, some 46 books demonizing the president have been published, The Daily Beast's John Avlon reports. By this time in his presidency, there were only five anti-George W. Bush books. The anti-Obama trend is just another measure of the new intensity of politics. "If any Republican thinks that this cycle will stop with the next president, they underestimate the ways that politics follows the lines of physics—every action creates an equal and opposite reaction," Avlon writes. "This will become the new normal."

--Daily Beast