I loved Obama, because sometimes I just have to vote for general decency, but if you dropped Obama into the 1970s by parachute, he'd be a moderate Republican.

Articles like this help people understand just how far the pendulum has swung. Usually, the pendulum swings back but this time it didn't. It's been swinging hard to the right for 40 years.

The rightward lurch seems permanent. It is turning the U.S. into a failed state (as Umair might say).