The Growing Detachment of the Political Class

I hate to keep harping on this topic, but it is so very relevant to the present political discussion. The political class and its sycophants — and I want to be clear here that this is bipartisan and, to a degree, across ideological lines — has grown hopelessly out of touch with the rest of America. The political class that supports things like the Ground Zero mosque has become fringe.

They and their ideas are bounced back and forth and embraced as gospel truth with no bearing on reality....