Although I neither follow nor go out of my way to read Mark Sumner at Daily Kos, when I have read his stuff I’ve generally thought what he writes is rather good. That makes this bit of fury and arrogance all the more disappointing.
As I’m writing this, CNN commentator Van Jones and CNN host Jake Tapper are nodding sagely to each other, calling on Democrats to apologize for a “crime against the Republic.” As charter members of the Joe Biden-so-old chorus, Jones and Tapper are adamant that every member of the Democratic Party needs to get on their knees, rend their clothing, and above all, acknowledge just how right Tapper & Co. were in being the first to board U.S.S. Backstab.
Well, here’s the TL;DR version of the article that follows: Fuck their apology. And fuck them.
Democrats don’t need to apologize. They certainly don’t need to roll out some nationwide hair-wringing mea culpa in the middle of the biggest assault on our democracy that has ever happened — and that’s including the Civil War.
There is not one voter, not anywhere in America, who is asking for this. Or if there is, that voter is already an avid Fox News watcher who is simply drooling over the anticipation of watching Democrats demean themselves. Again. The only ones demanding an apology from Democrats are the asshats who want a big ol’ pat on the back for being so gosh-darn clever.
I suppose he, and those who agree, saw Tapper’s employer, CNN, as an ally, and now they’ve been betrayed.
Such be ideological zealots, regardless of their home.
And the sad part is that I don’t think they’ve searched for an honest assessment of why they lost to that pack of fourth-rater lap-dogs called the Republican Party. Too addicted to their emotions, they seem to think if they get angry enough voters will vote for them.
And they might. The Republicans have been working very hard to hand them the next election.
But they do need to figure out what went wrong and fix it. The media has its own problems to fix, of course, but for Democrats it’s a different issue – they need to stop acting like autocrats. Long-term readers know my assessment on the matter.
