Is Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner trying to turn his newspaper, the Observer, into a half-assed Breitbart imitator? Here’s a column by one Austin Bay that reads like a parody of Trumpist grievances. The subject: FBI Director James Comey should investigate the mean, mean left in the wake of the elections.
Seriously, check this out:
A little out of control? What an understatement. Let me put it to you straight and personal, Jim. Identifying electors and then attempting to intimidate them into switching their votes is an ipso facto effort to overturn a national election. Which leads to a question a competent FBI Director would already have his agents asking: Is this elector threat scheme a coordinated operation?
“Let me put it to you straight and personal, Jim.” What hard-bitten character actor did Bay imagine saying those words as he wrote them?
Clearly the threat to American democracy we should be talking about is not the loser of the popular vote becoming president. It’s not Russian hacking. It’s not an outbreak of hate crimes in the wake of the election of someone who campaigned on hate. It’s voters contacting electors and urging them to make the winner of the popular vote president.