They say Republicans have gone downscale as a party and left the upper crust WASP model and settled into the lower-end of society...basically they say that traditional Republicans economically have turned to being Democrats.
Well, that means (if these guys are right, and they may not be) the Yacht Club has given up and gone over to their Marxist enemies. Who'd have thunk it?
Some of the crusterati have certainly given up on paleoconservative principled opposition to statism -- Christopher Buckley among them, like Alcibiades, the roue' son of Pericles, who went over to the Spartans and betrayed 10,000 of his fellow-citizens, with whose command he had been entrusted before his entirely self-induced disgrace and fall, to a degrading and pitiful death in battle and in slavery beneath the citadel of Syracuse.
But the sneers of Charlie Rose's guests for the new, "downscale" leadership of the "residue" of the GOP, are precisely like those of the Four Hundred before their overthrow by the Progressive Movement. Sarah Palin and her successors will teach these guys humility, just as Ronald Reagan did before her.
People like David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, and Charlie's guests confuse articulation and the possession of an elite education with principles, and make the mistake of despising the People as Sinclair Lewis once did with his anathematization of them in Main Street and Babbit. It was they, not Lewis, who transacted American history, and it was he who was reduced to writing books in which he hated them on paper.
A bit of a stretch don't you think?
LOL!