I find it endlessly amusing when pundits and politicians think they have an “a-ha!” moment while more normal people see it as “duh!” It happens all the time when people who consider themselves elite and intellectuals experience something or come across a bit of information that is completely foreign to them but a regular part of everyone else’s everyday life.

The greatest example of this, though more apocryphal than real and blown way out of proportion, was in the early 90s when then-President George H. W. Bush saw a barcode scanner in a grocery store for the first time. He’d been Vice President for eight years, then President – there was no reason he would’ve known about advances in checkout technology. Still, he was slammed by the press and the left (but I repeat myself) as out of touch.

It's one of those things about politics that seem counter-intuitive, or at least counter-productive – that the higher you climb in politics (elected or punditry), the more detached from the people you are supposed or claim to represent you become. And the longer you........

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