Fred Hiatt wants to make sure you know he’s a COMPLETE idiot
Well, he does. “We knew who Trump was but elected him anyway. We can’t impeach him for that.”, writes WashPost editorial page editor Fred, ignoring the fact that “we” didn’t elect Trump, the Electoral College did. I myself am opposed to impeaching Trump, for prudential, Nancy Pelosi-style reasons, believing that it would be politically counter-productive, but that isn’t Fred’s tack. Instead, he gets all William Barr on our asses—“Nothing to see, folks, nothing to see, and if there is, don’t look at it”—as if Rep. Justin Amash hadn’t already demolished Barr’s hypocrisy and deceit and made a compelling formal, though not political, case for both Trump’s impeachment and conviction. Hiatt has been aggressively anti-Trump from the get-go, so it’s a bit of a mystery as to why he feels the sudden urge to kiss right-wing ass. Strange!
Rumble on the right: Ahmari v. French, or, Bitch-Slapping for Jesus
If you have a life, you probably haven’t heard about the frenzy stirred up among right-wingers over an hysterical take-down (which I haven’t read) of genteel anti-Trumper David French (whom I usually ridicule but sometimes praise), by Sohrab Ahmari, an immigrant from Iran who has gone all Catholic, and all Trumpian, on our asses, and Dave’s as well, accusing him of, basically, not being a soulless thug like our Führer, a word that I realize I need to learn how to spell, because I’ll be using it frequently in the future.
Ahmari’s such a dope that I’m not going to bother with him—Ralph Douthat offers a sort of guide for outsiders in case you’re interested—he writes for First Things, the happy hunting ground for hermeneutical windbags—but what’s funny about all of these self-important white boys arguing to hear themselves talk is that none of them seem to tumble to the fact that they’re all white boys! Hey, white boys! Look in the fucking mirror! You’re weird, dudes, you’re really weird! You aren’t normal!1
1. I hope I don’t offend gays by not mentioning that all these guys are totally straight as well, which they totally are. Totally.
