In his Friday column for the New York Times, after noting how Republican Governor of Ohio John Kasich has called out his own party, he bliuntly writes
Republican hostility toward the poor and unfortunate has now reached such a fever pitch that the party doesn’t really stand for anything else — and only willfully blind observers can fail to see that reality.
He notes how far a fall from grace this is by quoting Alf Landon, who may have laid out all the normal Republican tropes about the damage regulation does,
But he also said this: “Out of this Depression has come, not only the problem of recovery but also the equally grave problem of caring for the unemployed until recovery is attained. Their relief at all times is a matter of plain duty. We of our Party pledge that this obligation will never be neglected.”
 And he reminds us that in the rant by Rick Santelli that set off the movement we call the Tea Party
There’s nary a mention of deficits. Instead, it’s a tirade against the possibility that the