RE: Building Red America

But he acknowledges that Republicans have been helped ``inestimably'' by ``the daily inefficiencies of government'': ``The monopoly nature of government guarantees that the public services will often lag in quality behind those delivered in the competitive private sector.'' Hence ``the declining credibility of non-market solutions to economic problems'' and the demoralization of ``backers of a redistributive agenda.''

Will has brought us one of those sublime moments of synchronicity in which, by his own words, a liberal demonstrates why his political orientation requires intellectual laziness if not outright mental retardation.

The pre-Bush Republican Party has been trying for decades to tell America about these inefficiencies and why they make government completely unsuitable for anything but the most basic functions required to prevent us from hurting each other. The fact that this liberal can see the evidence and utterly miss the conclusion provides a nearly unequalled demonstration of the mental vacuity of American liberalism.

Hence ``the declining credibility of non-market solutions to economic problems'' and the demoralization of ``backers of a redistributive agenda.''

Would that it was really true.