I’d agree with you on that cogent assessment. Just seems to me that over the past 4-6mos, he’s *flipped* and I can’t stand to watch/listen to/read him, anymore. Seems that ‘DC culture’ does that to people: eventually corrupts them and their views.
My take on is that he’s gone from a ideologic to a pragmatist who realizes his income is derived from fitting ‘that certain niche’. The niche, of course, is the token conservative that is thought-provoking and fills the typical token conservative ‘mouth’ on the DC media circuits, but is not offending or too far right.