THE TIDE'S TURNING, I THINK

Atrios notes that the wingnuts "They've established an entire mythology, and its adherents have become cultlike." and points us to an interesting post at Crooked Timber that discusses the GOP's "success in constructing a parallel universe of news sources, thinktanks, blogs, pseudo-scientists and so on, which has led to the core becoming more tightly committed to an extremist ideology."



This graph from Pew is also encouraging: