left – Moe Lane

Quote of the Day, SING It, Brothers @EdDriscoll / @JonahNRO. Sing It edition.

This is a gem from a gem of an article on the enjoyable past-time of watching the Angry Left balefully eat itself:

…let me interject by noting that the moment anyone says to you “We are calling for an occupation of syllabi,” you can put your headphones back on and finish watching the latest episode of Gotham, because nothing that follows will be worth your time.

I should also note there that this is in response to a Berkeley protest complaining about Karl Marx being taught… because he’s a white dude. Once I was done laughing, I was reminded of something written by another dead white dude*: “Do not call up that which you can not put down.” Good advice: such a pity that the Left decided to ignore it.

Moe Lane

*Who, admittedly, was so racist that he’d be racist about me.

On trying to shoehorn populism into the modern Left. Somehow. Somewhere.

I’m gonna push back a little on Salena Zito’s argument here on populism, although I certainly agree with her assessment of Elizabeth Warren:

We are in the midst of a record wealth gap between America’s rich and middle class, according to the Pew Research Centers. That has fueled the populist opposition to Washington among Main Street Americans on both sides of the political line — and [Senator Elizabeth] Warren is trying to cash in on it.

That’s fine; that’s what we do in America. But it isn’t populism, as will be seen when people do not rise up. Populism is an ideology extolling the virtues of the people against the depravities of elites — such as Harvard Law professors like Warren, according to Baylor University political science professor Curt Nichols.

Continue reading On trying to shoehorn populism into the modern Left. Somehow. Somewhere.

Jennifer Palmieri: Lefty bloggers participating in ‘coordinated echo chamber.’

Interestingly, this was not intended to be an insult.

Mickey Kaus notes this paragraph of a Politico article that probably should have raised more eyebrows:

“[CAP President John] Podesta’s and my experience was in the White House during the Clinton years, and we didn’t have a coordinated echo chamber on the outside backing us up,” she said. “There’s a real interest on the progressive side for groups to want to coordinate with each other and leverage each other’s work in a way I haven’t ever seen before.”

Bolding mine – and Mickey’s, for that matter. The article itself is dedicated to the completely unsurprising revelation that the Left side of the blogosphere coordinates its attacks on what it perceives to be enemies of the Democratic party. While this may surprise a few that weren’t paying attention, the only real newsworthy item here is that somebody’s willing to go on the record as calling it an “echo chamber.” Apparently, this is no longer an insult. Continue reading Jennifer Palmieri: Lefty bloggers participating in ‘coordinated echo chamber.’