Awesome Op Ed by Harold Meyerson

Including

The third [possible, partial explanation of Republicans sleepwalking] is that the alternative reality conveyed by the Republican media -- Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk -- has created a Republican activist base that is genuinely not reality-based, and from which the current generation of Republican pols is disproportionately drawn.

Things must be really shifting fast if a columnist in the Washington Post has a diagnosis of what ails the Republicans as insightful and hard hitting as this written by an Australian economist -- John Quiggin