The Democrats are a party in search of a base and have been so since their the departure of their Hollywood glam leader, former President Barack Obama. Witness their tortuous and bizarre response to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. They had no less than five responses prepared to criticize whatever President Donald Trump might have provided them. Did we miss anyone? Can we find a constituency in here somewhere?
But it is the whining rebuttal of one Rep. Joe Kennedy III that deserves special mention. People whose names are identified by Roman numerals are often from that rarified strata of society known as the super-rich, the stuffed shirts personified by the Gilligan’s Island character of Thurston Howell III for generations of kids watching after-school television.
The always-entertaining Donna Brazile made a brief appearance on Fox News to chat with host Tucker Carlson prior to discuss the weird Democratic strategy. The former DNC chairwoman — who can’t seem to decide whether Hillary Clinton stole the nomination or not — was effusive in her praise of Kennedy, whom she described as an emerging political star. Carlson could barely contain his mirth as he described the another appeal to the Kennedy mystique as the Dems playing their “greatest hits.”
Never mind the suggestions of make-up gone mad, or the strange appearance of drooling; it was the constant harping about that bully Trump without ever actually naming him that defined Kennedy’s performance. Can there have been a more effete and elite personification of the effete and elite Democratic Party?
