DEAR MAINSTREAM MEDIA: YOU’RE SQUIRMING AND WE LOVE IT. From Steve, this morning:
Northeastern’s David Lazer, who heads up the Civic Health and Institutions Project, explained the shift this way: “In general there’s been a lot of negativity about Biden and younger voters may have been more responsive to that.” Not that Biden has done a bad job, mind you, or that Trump has somehow become acceptable. There’s just this vibe, you know, this negativity about Biden. The denial is strong with this one.
Then there’s the swing-for-the-fences panicmongering like this one from The New Republic: How the Hell Can People Be Nostalgic for Donald Trump? Yet—They Are.
I dunno — low inflation, rising wages, peace?
The New York Times chose Memorial Day to publish an op-ed by Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, comparing Biden to aged-but-lovable Boris Yeltsin in 1996 and Donald Trump to the resurgent Communist threat represented by election opponent Gennady Zyuganov.
Is Trump supposed to be Literally Hitler™ or a filthy Commie? It’s so hard to keep track these days.
Vox even devoted one of its trademark sleep-inducing “explainer” columns today to squirming over Biden’s loss of support among young and non-white voters. “High turnout may actually favor Republicans this year,” namely Trump, despite his “paranoid vision of American life and a populist contempt for the nation’s political system.”
Young and non-white voters don’t understand they’re voting for the end of voting!
The crème de la crème of squirming alarm is today’s Politico article that my colleague Rick Moran already gave a full writeup. But please let me break out this particularly tasty bit from it. Enjoy this classic bit of panicmongering boilerplate from an unnamed Dem operative: “This isn’t, ‘Oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president.’ It’s ‘Oh my God, the democracy might end.'”
These are the same people who said Romney would give people cancer.
Not to mention, this classic moment: Biden: Romney’s approach to financial regulation will ‘put y’all back in chains.’
Every GOP presidential candidate since Thomas Dewey has been compared to Hitler, but this is the first time the Democrats compared a candidate to Hitler who then went on to win who is running for a non-concurrent second term, and thus have to explain why even though he didn’t do much Hitlering* in his first term, he’d be sure to really have the Reich Stuff in his second.
* Of course, point taken. But all of that was entirely Fauci-approved, and the left were furious he didn’t go further, until riot season broke out, right around this time, four years ago.