The best of yesterday

The best article, I read yesterday was the column by Thomas Frank in the New York Times titled "Thus Spake Zinsmeister." I think that  Frank has a remarkable ability to put, which at first glance appear odd or just incomprehensible, into perspective. The article is about Karl Zinsmeister, the president's Chief domestic adviser and  his ideology. What is scary is how much one's biases can darkened one 's worldview and make one unable or unwilling to see the whole picture. The most important thing that Frank says about Zinsmeister, "What his career really shows us, though, is the looming exhaustion of the conservative intellectual system; its hopeless addiction to dusty, crumbling clichés; and a blindness to the reality of conservative power so persistent and so bizarre that it amounts to self-deception or, in Zinsmeister’s case, delusion. " I don't enough about Zinsmeister to know whether Frank's indictment is fair, but if it is, it would be one more proof that demonisation works in American politics.