Who knew that Carlson was such a good journalist. Too bad he did not follow up and ask who the promise to cut taxes on the rich was made to. The answer is the donors. Ryan would call them job creators, which is odd considering his family’s business was state road paving.

Fake news is necessary to keep the right wing masses distracted from the fact that they are supporting a tax and health care reform agenda that makes and keeps them much worse off, even if that agenda is particularly and increasingly ugly. It hardly appeals to the better angels of their nature. It also distracts from the deep personality flaws of der Leader.

Joe Kennedy shows that the best socialism is the Christian kind.