At some point, Matt Stoller lost his damn mind. I don’t know how you can spend long enough on the Harvard campus to earn a degree and still have such weird ideas about our elites. Peggy Noonan writes less meandering columns than Stoller. He wants us all to know that one man, Barack Obama, has ruined the institutions of the American left. To prove this, he uses a chart that covers 65 years of history, 40 of which are relevant. As further proof that Obama is the devil, he blames Wisconsin Democrats for doing everything wrong. Then, after offering no proof and no explanation for why Obama is at fault, he proceeds to blame everyone else:
But it’s not complete to say this is just Obama’s doing. Obama has done everything he’s done with the support of labor leaders, Democratic supportive groups like Moveon, foundations, liberal pundits, African-American church networks, feminist groups, LGBT groups, and technology interests. Any of these could have stopped him by withdrawing support and overtly attacking him, but only the LBGT community fought for their rights. This American labor bureaucracy, which simply does not strike and therefore has no leverage against capital, operates largely as a group of fragmented business unionists.
Yes, everyone of the left is doing it wrong because they haven’t, like Matt Stoller, taken leave of their senses and attacked the most brilliant and decent and politically talented president we’ve had in decades.
He concludes with some nonsense about interfering with the flow of commerce, which sounds a little Unibomberish. Maybe Stoller would be happier as a Somali pirate.
Oh, but we know how the president deals with those folks.
Townhouse must be a ghost town these days. What a freak show.
