Thirty-five years old today. In the last several <$Ad$>months this marker seemed hard to get my head around, and more than a little daunting. But now that it’s here, it feels right, like it’s where I should be.
Thank you very sincerely to all who’ve sent good wishes.
I took a light week last week. But this week ahead we should be back to the standard frequency of posts. And there’s certainly plenty to write about.
The new line out of the White House is that they really just haven’t been in campaign mode. But with the Democrats being so mean and ungenerous, well … they’ll have to let loose the dogs.
Allegedly predicting this shift, Peggy Noonan has a piece in the Post today which, among other things, is, in the first few grafs, a good example of cliche and slander gussied up to look like literature. It’s worth taking a moment to read.
The key to so much of this is that Republicans — particularly those in the president’s orbit — simply don’t have much experience being on the receiving end of what they normally serve up with such alacrity and zest. They’re knocked off balance. Their breath is a bit taken away.
There is a natural tendency for each side to believe the other side is meaner, more disciplined, more unfair, more this, that, and the other. But it’s only very recently that Democrats have had enough of an infrastructure of media and fundraising to raise the attention of their ideological competitors. And the White House has, for literally years now, been sowing the wind while using aggressive tactics and the climate of national emergency to knock back any response.
That’s beginning to change.
More on all of this soon.
