Well, here's his piece from The Daily Beast yesterday:
Some combative conservatives may wish that Mitt Romney had talked more about the various plots and conspiracies they believed Obama to have launched upon the land: Fast & Furious, ACORN, Pigford, U.N. bike lanes, Obama’s imagined plan to abolish the suburbs. But while this kind of angry talk may gain eyeballs on Hannity, it’s not the stuff that swings undecided voters in Colorado and Virginia—especially not the women voters who formed 53 percent of the electorate on Tuesday; or the moderates, men and women, who formed 41 percent of it; or the nonreligiously observant, who formed three quarters of it. Only 34 percent of the vote Tuesday was made up of white men. The share of the vote that was made up of older, conservative white men must have been much smaller still. Fox Nation never was more than a very tiny slice of the American nation, and it was only sad self-delusion that ever led anyone to think otherwise.I think it's easy to see how the GOP policies would've been just as effective at sinking Romney as was the shit-for-brains ding-bat loonies of Fox Nation etc, but at least Frum knows the Republican Party can't go on acting like a bunch of Bag Ladies, Ripple-fueled Oracles and Polyester Prophets if we're ever gonna get back to where we can have a real discussion with each other about real things.
And deep down, we all know it.
Yet if we know that extremism is dangerous, why do we see so much of it?
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