The Year That Humbled the Establishment

David Paul Kuhn, RCP
The media establishment that hyped this Democratic president but refused to be humbled with him. Pundits' premises so fundamentally disproved. The conservative collapse that was not. The so-told emerging liberal era that was not. The Democratic leaders who bought the hype, acting on the masochistic premise that if big liberal things were done, the American mind's apprehension to big liberal things could be undone. The hapless Republican generals saved by conservative foot soldiers. A liberal opposition that, all over again, undid itself in Pyrrhic victory. It was a year of...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/31/the_year_that_should_humble_the_dc_establishment_108401.html

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