Did Jonathan Chait get a lobotomy?
I don’t think so, and whatever else he is, stupid is not an attribute I associated with him. So when I saw this tweet I about burst out laughing.
Chait is tweeting about Karine Jean-Pierre’s interview with The New Yorker, in which she demonstrates—once again—that anybody who suggested that she is a midwit has been far too generous. She cannot answer the most basic questions without generating confusion–so much so that the woman who was hired to communicate for the President of the United States spent almost all her time trying to clear up misconceptions that she herself created.
Chait knows the answer, but believes he can’t say it, lest he be crucified by his fellow staffers at the Atlantic (see also: Williamson, Kevin) and by his fellow leftists on social media. We’ll know if his party wants to return from the wilderness when he’s able to verbalize why KJP was in the White House, and why Biden’s self-described “Politburo” believed they couldn’t remove her. (See also: Harris, Kamala.)