I was updating my fantasy football roster and saw this from Yahoo News. Not having read the article, but knowing Yahoo is run by liberal lunatics, I thought it would be worth some laughs. The author is someone I’ve never hear of not did I recognize his face. I entered his name into the nearest google machine, which I keep handy for such occasions. It turns out that Matt Bai is a leading voice in American politics. How about that?

Anyway, here is what the leading voice in American politics has to say about what republican voters want.

So I’ve been catching up on all the latest accumulation of Washington wisdom — or, at least, all the wisdom that I can accumulate in a Twitter feed — and now I totally get why no one other than Rand Paul or Ted Cruz or the reincarnated Pat Buchanan can possibly win the Republican nomination in 2016. (Actually, Pat’s alive and well — it’s just that he’s on the McLaughlin Group. My bad.)

You see, the party’s base voters — the ones who turn out to vote in primaries and caucuses — are too completely off the rails to nominate a mushball like Jeb Bush or Chris Christie! Get real — those guys can’t make it through the primaries talking about immigration reform and bipartisanship and blah-blah-blabbedy-blah. They’d get dismantled in the early states, just like that “maverick” John McCain and that liberal Mitt Romney!

Oh. Hang on.

Here’s what some commentators and conservative bloggers seem to be forgetting: Old-line, establishment Republicans have managed to wrest the nomination in every election since Ronald Reagan left office, and there’s really no reason to think it’s any less plausible in 2016. In fact, if a Bush or a Christie decides to go all in, the smart move probably isn’t to be more doctrinaire, but actually less so.

Let’s just assume, for the sake of argument, that Hillary Clinton is a candidate for president and her party’s presumed nominee in 2016. (And just so we’re clear, I’m not saying the granddaughter with whom she left the hospital, beaming, this week is actually a robot baby secretly manufactured in China to address certain deficiencies in “warmth” reflected in her internal polling numbers. That’s crazy. I’m not saying that.)

If that’s the case, most conservatives, fiscal or social, are going to be thinking about one thing as the primaries draw near, and it isn’t Common Core; it’s how to keep another Clinton out of the White House. Chances are activist favorites like Paul and Cruz will have to spend more time then trying to persuade voters that they’re electable than Christie will have to spend trying to convince them he’s merciless toward immigrants.

I got tired of the leading voice in American politics at this point. The only reason to post this is to point out that hive minded people like the leading voice in American politics have no idea what’s going on outside the hive. They also have a binary view of the world. There’s inside the hive (liberal democrats) and outside the hive (not liberal democrats). When they peak outside at the world through their telescope, they see a world of bad people (Tubby, Jebby) and really bad people (Cruz, Paul, Buchanan). The fact that there are vast differences between Tubby and Jebby, not to mention the gulf between Buchanan and Paul and Cruz, is lost on the leading voice in American politics.

There’s no fixing this. People who join cults, political or otherwise, don’t do so because they are searching for truth. They seek belonging and self-obliteration. Blurring the lines between themselves and the group, like zebra on the plains of Africa, is what brings them peace of mind. You can’t talk them out of their comfortable hiding place. Republicans and conservative who keep going on liberal TV shows and welcoming liberal advocates to cover their campaigns are delusional. The hive will never give them a fair hearing. They can’t. It’s not how a cult works.