DEMOCRACY DIES IN VICTIMHOOD. Hot take: Trump using the term “paddy wagon” is offensive to Irish-Americans, James Mulvaney, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and former deputy commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights moans in the Washington Post, (link safe; goes to Hot Air) including this embarrassing moment:

Two years ago, I complained to the New York Times about the appearance of “paddy wagon” in a crossword. Puzzle editor Will Shortz dismissed my objections, writing: “The Irish are not a group that’s discriminated against in the U.S.”

That’s generally true. But each use of the phrase “paddy wagon” evokes a time when they were.

As Allahpundit writes in response, “You know you’re in deep left field when the New York Times is telling you to sack up, snowflake.”

Read the whole thing – while imagining how painful it must be to be inside Mulvaney’s skull when he clicks past a Batman rerun on cable TV and sees Chief O’Hara.

Which brings us to this very much related column by Aaron Clarey on “The Pettiness of the Left:” “Understand this and understand this well about leftists.  They are miserable people who will waste their entire, precious lives being envious of what others have instead of appreciating what they have. And when the day comes that they’re on their death bed, all they will have to point to is a life of whining, complaining, hatred, and jealousy. A worse punishment does not exist.”

No. There is another.