Uncool Kids

The Democrats have lost their cool:

Obviously, I am no longer an arbiter of what’s cool, if I ever was one. If anything, my superpower is that I am old enough to be emotionally, socially, and financially secure, such that I get to care about things on the merits and am otherwise immune to feeling like I should approve of something because of its cultural cachet. Which brings me to the Democrat party. I have a decades-long written record of disagreeing with their policies on the merits, and they’ve become so uncool I actually feel bad for them. I can’t watch them right now without experiencing second-hand embarrassment. Now I’m sure there are many fine folks on the former bird app who are willing to angrily disabuse me of the notion I should feel bad for Democrats, and fair enough. But great Odin’s raven, what are Democrats doing to themselves? (If you’re keeping score, that reference is 21 years old.) .... The crazy thing is how many examples of this stuff are out there right now. It’s counterproductive Democrat theatrics all the way down. Even reliable Democrat turnspits, aka Politico columnists, are saying things such as, “If Democrats think standing up and walking out is their best path back to power, rather than adopting a more strategic approach to their Trump resistance, it could be a long four years — and possibly beyond.” It’s safe to assume the pendulum will swing back sooner than overconfident Trump supporters would like, but at an event a day after publicly humilating themselves in front of the whole country, incredibly, Democrat leaders took no questions from the usually obsequious press. But speaking as someone who’s been writing professionally about politics since The Matrix was in theaters (that’s 26 years), for the first time, I don’t know how the Democrat Party is going to become relevant again. And it sure looks like they have no idea what to do, either.

They're uncool without a clue...