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You are correct about the writer choosing his subjects with exquisite care. However, he needs to be correct about the focus of that anger if he is to do this, and he isn't.

In simple fact, Congress absolutely can defund 0bamacare by a majority vote. And there is a Republican majority, and that's one reason why there is a Republican majority. And they didn't deliver. We had a "55 attempts to stop 0bamacare" institutional Kabuki-dance that fooled no one in the electorate. And we're angry that they tried to fool us. That was the political establishment grandly declaiming to the Little People that they simply didn't know how the system works, and the conclusion we drew - correctly, in my estimation - is that "the system" is not working as designed due to corruption. And the people corrupting it are the people who are patting us on the head and telling us that everything's OK.

There is quite a bit more to Republican anger than that. We're angry about the silence, about the supine submission to the kulturkampf being waged in the media and the Executive department - the armed services turned into a smirking cauldron of political correctness with nary a word of protest on the part of our elected representatives, the organs of the IRS and the EPA being turned into ideological war machines, the steady and inexorable increase in federal control over education, transportation, and economics. All of this could have been at least protested by establishment Republicans and the crystal-clear perception is that with a very few signal exceptions, they were not.

The real difficulty is that establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats are now simply the Establishment, and so anger directed thereto no longer differentiates between the parties since the parties do not appear to differentiate between one another. This is not a phenomenon restricted to the last two, or five, or even twenty years. It reached a flashpoint when the establishment, including the news and entertainment media, decided to inflict a New Normal and enforce it through the power of the state. Elected representatives of both parties have been far too silent, far too obedient, far too unrepresentative in the face of this not to excite a level of outrage and far too arrogant or unperceptive to sense it now that it's happening. It should not be a surprise to the author and it isn't going to be assuaged by a glib dismissal.