“Their way is gone, maybe forever. Democrats blame this on Donald Trump, and in the area of historical consciousness he is, truly, a hopeless cause. But this week Democrats joined him in the pit. “
Democrats were not the only ones to have a bad week.
Poor Miss Peggy. This must have been one of the most difficult columns she has ever had to write. In it she not only had to report on just how inept, disrespectful, and foolish the ‘leadership’ (perhaps that’s an inaccurate, too-kind a term) of today’s Democratic Party is.
She also had to, in her most grudging way, acknowledge the genius and effectiveness of Donald Trump (“The speech itself was shrewd and its political targeting astute…This was the president putting the Republican Party on the side of the nobodies of all colors as opposed to the somebodies.”)
Ms. Noonan did that part in the most unprofessional way that she has developed to a high art form in recent years (“…I’d be lying if I said it didn’t please me to see it represented so effectively, and I very much regret that the president is a bad man and half mad because if he weren’t I’d be cheering.”)
Her final lament in concluding her hardest-to-write-column: “Whatever happens with him (Trump), that is the party’s future. Whatever happens with the Democrats they cannot afford another week like this.” dlh
At The Wall Street Journal:
The fiasco in Iowa, the foolishness at the State of the Union—do they realize how bad they look?
