On the GOP Pundits and the Apocalypse That Isn’t

Matt Taibbi has a column on rollingstone.com in which he rips David Brooks for cynically feeding the masses red meat for the benefit of plutocrats and refusing to accept the Trump and Cruz ascendancy as a consequence.  I think the column is completely unfair to Brooks, who writes reasonably and soberly, but not to the GOP media as a whole.

If you persist in telling your audience in the shrillest tone possible that Obama is a socialist because he wants to increase the maximum income tax rate from 35 to 39 percent, what do you think is going to happen?  These people need to look at themselves in the mirror if they want to know what went wrong.