Out-of-Touch Is the Bomb

Writing for RealClearPolitics, Heather Wilhelm describes governmental elites so out of touch they have no idea of the concerns of the governed. That completely describes our President but, as she points out, others as well.

It’s telling and appropriate that Angela Merkel just won Time magazine’s Person of the Year. In Germany, Merkel has morphed into the archetype of the out-of-touch government elite, the aloof bureaucrat who puts a preferred mission above the desires of the local rubes—and who is also completely clueless about the dangerous political dynamic she’s in the process of creating.

By all means Time, let's celebrate out-of-touch "leaders," including the entire cadre of GOP poobahs. Germany, meanwhile, is committing suicide ... that's their choice, or at least her choice for them.