Derangement Watch: David Remnick, "A Role Model For The Midterms"

A torrent of delusional, fantastical nonsense pours from the left these days. But this is unhinged even by the prevailing, denigrated standards over there.

   I'm not going to waste time on it except to note:

[1] You have to be completely out of touch with reality to think that this is the Republicans' "culture war." It isn't the Pubs (not right now, anyway) arguing that it is imperative to teach first-graders grotesque and life-destroying falsehoods about sex. The culture war is, far and away, the doing of the extremist left, which now controls the Democrats.

[2] The author wrote the following with, apparently, a straight face:

McMorrow’s speech comes at a time when many are convinced that the Democrats are doomed in this year’s midterm elections and beyond. The foreboding is general, the prognostication stark: A Republican, Trumpian majority in Congress will stymie all substantive legislation coming from the White House and, out of a sense of vengeance, establish sham committees to harass Joe Biden. The House may even contrive a reason to impeach the President, if only for the fun of it. Biden has been polling badly since the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the spike in inflation. In 2024, Trump, or one of his epigones (Governor Ron DeSantis, of Florida, is the comer of the moment), will crush the incumbent––legitimately or otherwise, whatever is required. At that point, the hideous scenario concludes, we shall be entirely in the hands of a more experienced, more vindictive version of Trump 1.0. American democracy will not be imperilled [sic]. It will be erased.

"The anxiety," Remnick tells us, "is not to be dismissed."

Madness has gripped the left. Not utter nor abject madness--we have to believe that sense can be slapped back into them. But it's going to take a crushing electoral loss at the very least. That will bring on a different set of problems--but that's a bridge to be crossed when we come to it.