‘THE TEA PARTY WILL WIN IN THE END:’ Elizabeth, that’s quite a change for Frank Rich, who was calling the Tea Party ‘Stalinists’ back in late October of 2010.

As Matt Welch of Reason wrote at time, “Only Stalinists Use Words Like “Stalinist.'” Of course, that was back when Rich was still with the New York Times, effectively the print division of MSNBC. Unlike the wild and woolly Times, perhaps New York magazine requires him to dial the radical chic rhetoric back a notch or ten.