New: Dems Must Shut Down That Circular Firing Squad Before The Shooting Starts
Gee whiz! We’re barely two weeks past Election Day, and the Democrats have already formed their circular firing squad. In order, clockwise, we have the dreary Conor Lamb on the right, about at one o’clock. On the left, up there at 11 and counting, we find Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the darling of the left. They’ve both laid claim to the soul of the Democratic party, newly on offer after Joe Biden took back the presidency and six assorted congresspersons lost their seats to Republicans.
As usual, the newsies are eager to turn the circle into a football game: two teams facing each other and fighting to reach the goal on the other side with some combination of cleverness and brute force. A nice demonstration of how this works can often be found in the New York Times, which disgraced itself in 2016 by pumping up a foolish and pointless discussion of Hillary Clinton’s email server into a game-changer in the last week or two of the campaign. Yes, it probably was clickbait, but look what mischief they wrought.
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