[Beef Supreme]

I know it is not exact a surprise that David Frum is criticizing republicans. This piece is kind of his Magnum Opus and very compelling so I thought it worth posting. TL warning for those with short attention spans.

Conservatives have been driven to these fevered anxieties as much by their own trauma as by external events. In the aughts, Republicans held more power for longer than at any time since the twenties, yet the result was the weakest and least broadly shared economic expansion since World War II, followed by an economic crash and prolonged slump. Along the way, the GOP suffered two severe election defeats in 2006 and 2008. Imagine yourself a rank-and-file Republican in 2009: If you have not lost your job or your home, your savings have been sliced and your children cannot find work. Your retirement prospects have dimmed. Most of all, your neighbors blame you for all that has gone wrong in the country. There’s one thing you know for sure: None of this is your fault! .

David Frum on the GOP’s Lost Sense of Reality -- New York Magazine

 

[dante]

It's why I read DF, although I do have to skip over the "Obama is in favor of massive and continual government spending" BS.