When it comes to sneering contempt for ordinary people, it's hard to out-perform the left, with its long, bloody history of mass murders by tiny radical elites.  But we are now being treated to conservative pundits' revolt against the base, a most revealing moment in these dangerous times. I won't name names (you already know them), but the punditocracy is ablaze with outrage that the voters might actually pick a candidate – in this case, Donald Trump.  It doesn't matter if you're pro or contra Trump.  What I find a little shocking is how the scribbler class is openly trying to knock off the most popular candidate – in much the way they sneered at Reagan (just an old B-movie actor), and, for that matter, at Lincoln (a backwoods hick).  Reagan and Lincoln lacked "nuance," "gravitas," and fashionable radicalism. Well, Obama is an old-fashioned radical, straight out of Tom Wolfe's glorious book of essays,...(Read Full Article)