Bobos In Purgatory

David Brooks, NYT’s resident RINO and author of Bobos In Paradise, tracks the “Liberal Suicide March”:

It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or representatives from swing districts.

They brought in pollsters to their party conferences to persuade their members that the country was fervently behind them. They were supported by their interest groups and cheered on by their activists and the partisan press. They spent federal money in an effort to buy support [which Brooks heartily supported at the time — Ed] but ended up disgusting the country instead.

It’s not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That’s because the plotline is exactly the same. The party is led by insular liberals from big cities and the coasts, who neither understand nor sympathize with moderates. They have their own cherry-picking pollsters, their own media and activist cocoon, their own plans to lavishly spend borrowed money to buy votes.

This ideological overreach won’t be any more successful than the last one. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday confirms what other polls have found. Most Americans love Barack Obama personally, but support for Democratic policies is already sliding fast.

Bumper stickers are available in the lobby for those who “love Barack Obama personally” — if not as personally as some of Brooks’ fellow Timespeople fantasize.

(Via the Rhetorican.)

Related: “The Aristocracy of Intent.”