I’ve paid a heavy price, both personal and financial, for my evolution from comfortably within the Republican Party and conservative movement to a less than comfortable position somewhere on the center-left. Honest to God, I am not a liberal or a Democrat. But these days, they are the only people who will listen to me. When Republicans and conservatives once again start asking my opinion, I will know they are on the road to recovery. So he complains on the one hand that conservatives won't read the NYT, then cries because conservatives won't read him either, so therefore he's going to be a lefty until conservatives straighten up and fly right? Nice principals there.
One can only hope he's reading this thread on FR and can realize how DC has corrupted him.
Governments in one central spot made sense before the era of modern communications, but a geographically distributed government down to the county level would stop a lot of the power brokering that goes on today.
/johnny