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The NYT Blows It ... Again

According to Charles Blow of the New York Times this morning, apparently all voters except the saving remnant of Democrats are now mindless, belligerent Tea Partiers.

Welcome to the mob: an angry, wounded electorate, riled by recession, careening across the political spectrum, still craving change, nursing a bloodlust....

Unfortunately, many now see Barack Obama as a left-leaning version of George W. Bush: just another out-of-touch emperor. It seems as if Obama and the Democrats made the mistake of believing that a heart once won was forever won, that people would be patient, and that the mob would accept their reasoning for lack of results.

They were wrong. The mob is fickle. And it?s back with a vengeance.

Blow has blown this horn in the NYT before (?Belligerence is the currency of the intellectually bankrupt?), but that was back when he was still confident that we knuckle-dragging, right-wing racist morons were a tiny, hired faction of malcontents limited to raucous town-hall meeting out there in, well, America, i.e., that unknown and mysterious terriroty west of the Hudson.

Now he seems like the surrounded Lone Ranger in that famous exchange with Tonto (?What do you mean ?we???).

Full post as published by Discriminations on January 23, 2010 (boomark / email).