Lawrence O’Donnell talks with David Corn of Mother Jones magazine about the sudden and startling departure of David Frum, formerly of the American Enterprise Institute. The scales have fallen from the eyes of Frum who criticized Republicans for what most of us can see. Frum stated that they’d only just discovered that they’re working for the fringe element like Fox, Rush Limbaugh, and the Teabaggers, when the assumption was that the media was there to support them. Frum goes so far as to say Limbaugh wanted them to fail, the better to preserve his angry audience. By seamlessly including the radical right and doing their bidding, Republicans have created their own Armageddon, a word used famously by House Minority Leader John Boehner of health care reform passage. Republicans are now forced to do the bidding of the crazy fringe groups and media, virtually eliminating any productive internal debate, and if I may say – looking very silly in the process. By and large these are people the Republican party has lacked
interest in until they saw a chance to use the media and get votes. Rather than aspire to achievement they’ve found themselves wrapped around the axle with some very unpleasant people, taking directives from them and falling flat on their faces in the process.