On Sunday morning, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria re-aired an April 6 primetime special with the not-so-subtle title of The War on Government, which purported to be a history lesson on the conservative movement’s frustration with Republican politicians’ unwillingness or inability to shrink the government going back to President Dwight Eisenhower, which has culminated in DOGE’s blunt-force bureaucratic firings. The whole show operated on the assumption that conservatives, from FDR’s critics to DOGE, are wrong and out of touch, but the part about Tea Party opposition to President Barack Obama was the worst. Zakaria tried to claim Obamacare was actually conservative and had John Hopkins Professor Leah Wright Rigueur then surmise that the opposition to it was based in racism.
Zakaria huffed, “And yet, the core idea of Obamacare, requiring people to buy mostly…
