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Who’s Attacking Democratic Process?

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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The Washington Post has steadily evolved from being a newspaper edited and written by journalists to being something else. Sean Hannity has said that journalism is dead in America, and so I would think he would say that it is written by dead journalists. I would agree with that except that dead journalists cannot write. So what has the newspaper’s staff evolved into? Propagandists? Possibly. Advertising hacks? That takes talent.
I think this weekend I hit upon precisely what the Washington Post has evolved into. It is the newspaper of the American Federation of Teachers. It is a newspaper edited and written by schoolmarms. It is intent on teaching its childlike readership something elevated every time its writers are let loose on a topic. Is Tom Sietsema writing on restaurants today? He will turn his piece into a lecture on obesity. Is Kevin B. Blackistone writing on sports? He will turn it into a lecture on how to be a good loser. And if the subject is politics, there is a swarm of writers at the Post who will, of a sudden, be haranguing for Good Government, and they do not mind lying a bit. “That’s politics,” as we say.
Saturday Toluse Olorunnipa and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. reported on politics, and they did so in typical schoolmarm style. Of course, they lied, but they also simpered, pouted, and dissembled. In the second paragraph of their front-page report they accused “Republicans across the country” of backing “Trump’s assault on democratic principles.” In their third paragraph they accused the president of forcing Republican officials “to opt between siding with him and the nation’s democratic process.” Apparently the majority of Republicans sided with President Trump against the country’s “democratic process.” So now we have a Republican Party that is anti-democratic.
You do not believe the Post? You think Donald Trump might not oppose democratic process? You think he is questioning the vote because of irregularities in battleground states such as Pe...

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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief ofThe American Spectator. He is the author of How Do We Get Out of Here: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at the American Spectator from Bobby Kennedy to Donald J. Trump. He is also the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc; New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: The Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery. He makes frequent appearances on national television and is a nationally syndicated columnist, whose articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, National Review, Harper’s, Commentary, The (London) Spectator, Le Figaro (Paris), and elsewhere. He is also a contributing editor to the New York Sun.
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