The Pundits’ Reality Deficit
Three recent columns from the center-right confirm once again that denial isn’t just a river in Egypt
I was struck, in reading columns this week from three center-right analysts I respect, that even intelligent, decent, thoughtful people who made their careers in the old Reaganite dispensation may not be making the right kind of elementary inferences about political reality as it currently exists. Reading these columns—by Ross Douthat, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Jonah Goldberg—I felt like I was watching intelligent, decent, thoughtful people bury their heads in the sand, or avert their gaze, or some other metaphor meant to convey a refusal to face facts and come to what, to me, appear to be obvious conclusions.
This will be a post devoted to shaking these pundits by the shoulders in hopes of breaking the self-induced spell.
