The Exquisite Contrarian

When patriots are being taught that the president is a religiously suspect traitor ready to hand the country over to some sinister international cabal, its hardly surprising they feel entitled to hurl hateful words at him or his presumed allies. Cose: Hate Is Drowning Our Politics.

Fineman writes: Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum—which is why God created Roger Ailes. The president of Fox News is, by default, the closest thing there is to a kingmaker in Anti-Obama America. And that, in turn, makes him the de facto leader of the GOP. True.  And he’s been the GP chairman for years. [...]