Polarization resulting from Democrats becoming Socialists, Communists and Marxists. Obama has exacerbated this conversion.
The party formerly known as the democrats has morphed into the cpusa. Their ultimate goal is the destruction and downfall of the USA.
The repubs have morphed from Reagan type ideals to the old Democrat ideas.
The whole political landscape has shifted left.
So as a result we have mostly Pro American republicrats against Anti American marxists posing as democrats.
And a leader of the marxist party who is hell bent on destroying our system of representative government and replacing it with an African style marxist dictatorship.
He calls it fundamental transformation.
On an issue by issue basis you can compare across time. But what this guy was pointing was that such a comparison cannot be made by the analyzes being touted by the news media.
Because that analyzes only compares existing members of congress to each other. The only thing that it can say is congress has not been more divided sense 1880.
Ornstein is wittingly FoS -- this is the same old Leftist whine, surprising coming from Ornstein until you reflect that, at the end of the day, he's a Jewish neocon, and Jewish neocons think about real conservatives along these lines:
A Neocon blogs various discontents with Sarah Palin, "Flyover Country".
No love lost there. Neocons agree with conservatives about 55% of the time -- but never on social issues. There, their socialist, urban-ethnic, Democratic-wardheeler roots show plainly. And they are totally allergic both to Southern conservatives (excusing their opposition as being "for the good of the party's image" [Southerner=redneck lynch-mob, totally]) and, lo and behold, to very Northern, very rural, very non-Southern conservatives who expose the Neocons' hidden socialism and statism. Then they get really grouchy and dyspeptic, and vote secretly for Communists like Obama in preference to a real Christian conservative. Conservatives, after all, have murdered so many millions of Jews in repeated pogroms in North America over the last 100 years ...... oh, wait, I was thinking of Stalinists in Russia. Oh, well, never mind. </s>