"Unleashed Some Extraordinarily Toxic Elements into the Body Politic, and They Never Disappeared"

"According to Steve Schmidt, who at the time was a prominent Republican campaign adviser for President George W. Bush, 'She would say things that are simply not true, or things that were picked up from the internet. And this obliteration of fact from fiction, of truth from lie, has become now endemic in American politics.'"

Julian Zelitzer at CNN discusses the political legacy of Sarah Palin.