In “an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book” (SF Gate), Ed Asner—the actor who starred as Lou Give around the Mary Tyler Moore Present—reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who believe that they and only they learn how to interpret it.

Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are incorrect about voter fraud, Obama’s loss of life panels, and weather change, they are probably just as incorrect in what the Constitution says. There’s no about The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs way that two hundred-plus years later, the right-wing ideologues know how to interpret the Constitution. On their way house from Philadelphia the people who wrote it couldn’t acknowledge what it supposed. What was the president’s job? Who understood? All they understood was that the leader was going to end up being George Washington and so long as he was in control, that was good enough. When Hamilton wished to start a national bank, Madison told him that it had been unconstitutional. Both guys have been in the room when the Constitution was created. And now today you will find politicians and judges who claim that they understand the original signifying of the Constitution. Are you kidding?

In The Grouchy Historian, Ed Asner leads the charge for liberals to reclaim the Constitution through the right-wingers who use it as their justification for doing whatever horrible thing they want to do, which will be to comfort the comfy and afflict the afflicted. It’s time someone offered them hell and explained that progressives can read, too.