People like Jon Stewart and Bill Maher aren’t stupid. Arguably, Steward is an upper-level midwit–not super bright, but above average in intelligence and very talented at his profession–and Bill Maher is very bright and relatively thoughtful if more than a little encased in his bubble.
That means that when they are confronted with reality–which, by the way, can only happen when a fellow liberal slaps them in the face with it–they have the capacity to be just as shocked as any person is when the light bulb turns on.
Thoughtful liberals are being forced to look beyond the nostrums that people within their bubble mumble like incantations because, well, they see that they are losing and want to reverse that trend.
Ezra Klein, who very much wants to reverse the decline has noticed that liberals suck at doing what they say, and while he still believes (for…
