HERE’S THE LEFT’S ROTTEN HEART: Peter Berkowitz ably assesses “After the Fall,” Ben Rhodes’ latest attempt to justify eight years of artful manipulation of the American public and the mainstream media on behalf of then-President Barack Obama.

But Berkowitz could have done it for The Washington Free Beacon in just two paragraphs, the first to remind readers of who Rhodes was and remains, and then this one, which appears in the review he did write:

“From ‘the lived reality’ of his White House years, Rhodes acquired ‘the feeling that a cancer was metastasizing everywhere despite our efforts to treat it.’ He traces the cancer to ‘the ways in which decades of American capitalism, technology, and the politicized pursuit of national security had ripened so many people in the United States and around the world for crude nationalist appeals.'”

You know, like “America First.”