The monster the Republicans have spent the last 30 years nurturing has escaped its cage, and mild-mannered lapdog of the rich David Brooks thinks it’s a pity:
Nice sentiments. But I remember all the way back in the Bush administration when it was noted that Congressional Republicans’ idea of compromise was “give us everything we want or we walk”.
(And in the pundit’s undying premise that “both sides are equally guilty”, Brooks asserts that the hard-liners he bemoans are “best exemplified by the Tea Party but not exclusive to the right”. This is patent, self-consoling bullshit.)