Largely because Kevin thinks that Mckesson can’t be any worse than the current idiot running things, and because Mckesson needs to learn where the real problems are. Also, this:
…if the education of DeRay Mckesson turns out to be as deliciously brutal and pitiless as expected, then it also presents an opportunity to educate, to some extent, a generation of silly and ignorant young activists in aching need of a swift kick in the ass from reality.
Being someone who lives within a half hour of Baltimore, though… not just no. HELL, no. Say what you like about Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, but she was at least able to step aside and let Governor Larry Hogan (seemingly effortlessly) restore order in that riot. A hypothetical Mayor Mckesson might have ordered Baltimore cops to actively resist the National Guard. Because he’s just that dumb.
Not that Mckesson would ever get the nomination, of course. Not in Baltimore…
Moe Lane
It would be very entertaining. I have a dark enough sense of humor that I would find much amusement in this!
But I do know some people unfortunate enough to live in Baltimore, and don’t really wish this on them.
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It’s not an outcome of expend any effort towards, but if it happens, well, the silly geese deserve everything they get.
But if I’d known you were that close, if have tried to get together last year when my wife was being worked up at Hopkins. (We were there two weeks before the riots. Which I found a bit disconcerting.)
While McKesson would be the mayor Baltimore deserves and Baltimore would be the city McKesson deserves I have sympathy for Moe.
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And my brother and his family live in Columbia.
Let it burn.
Thank you, no, I live right down the road.
… invest in sprinklers and dig a good garden/fire-break in your yard this spring?
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Mew
I think Tommy Garcetti , dba Martin O Malley , is looking for work again .What’s to lose : The Wire , Part Deux
And if the education of DeRay Mckesson turns out to be as deliciously brutal and pitiless as expected, then it also presents an opportunity to educate, to some extent, a generation of silly and ignorant young activists in aching need of a swift kick in the ass from reality.
This assumes that Mckesson and his cohort are actually educable, a fact not in evidence. When things do get worse, it will all be Somebody Else’s fault. And you know what color Somebody Else is.
This is unpleasantly reminiscent of Ann Althouse’s vote for the Democrat candidate in the 2008 presidential election, in part because she believed that putting the Democrats in complete control of the government would require them to take responsibility for foreign policy and national defense, and would force them to be more realistic and sane in their policies. No, really! (Also because it gave her the opportunity to prove to herself how enlightened and evolved she was, of course. Gah.)
Heh. While I didn’t vote for the Dem in 2008, I can see Althouses’ point – especially in Wisconsin.
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The Dems (and their media tentacles CBS, NBC, ABC) had offered nothing constructive, but *tons* of criticism ..
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I do think she was in error .. not that putting Obama into office would be a disaster, I think she knew that going in .. but that the media would somewhat honestly report it.
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Mew