This article has substantial merit in its assessment of just how utterly out of touch the conservative Punditocracy has grown with the GOP rank-and-file voter.
On the other hand, a party that claims to be based in ideas also needs an intellectual leadership, and many of those derided in the same article have long provided such council, for better or worse.
The distaste of the coastal elites for Donald Trump obviously crosses political lines, largely because it is significantly based not in politics, but in culture.
As a reflection of the fact, many of us on the Right who largely support his policies nonetheless see him as uncouth, sometimes loutish, and generally uninterested in ideas. But unlike so many of our "pundits", we can overlook these qualities in the face of at least two central realities:
(a) President Trump has been quite successful in promoting a conservative policy agenda, even in spite of his Edward Twitterhands alter-ego, and
(b) the Left, largely represented by the Democrat Party, is growing increasingly angry, unhinged, and I would argue, dangerous.
So, when I read articles from people like George Will (whose intellect I have respected for a long time) suggesting that people should vote for Democrats this fall as a protest against Trumpism, I suspect that his bow tie may be cutting off too much of the oxygen to his head.
Even Jonah Goldberg (who I respect both for his mind and his humor) has begun to come around on this, recognizing that while Trump may not be the greatest thing since sliced challah bread, he's been pretty damned good so far and a whole lot better than any prospective leader of the roiling mob on the other side of the political divide.
