Another GOP Intellectual Can't Take It Anymore

Paul Krugman lets a reformed GOP speech writer describe the alternative cognitive universe in which his party now resides. It has its own wing of the book publishing industry, as well its own economic and social research organization, funded with tax free dollars, that sustains the ideological cocoon that protects them from cognitive dissonance. They are allied with the Christian Right, for political reasons, which also resides in an alternative universe. It is a universe in which Christ has been transformed into Adam Smith, and in which a cognitively gifted president has been reduced to an ignorant socialist who is unable to speak coherently without a teleprompter. Perhaps they prefer a president who is unable to speak coherently even with the aid of a teleprompter. The author of the posted article tried his best to make those speeches coherent without success.