That story about President Trump getting booed at the baseball game excites me as much as you’d expect a new bicycle to excite a paraplegic. But I can at least understand why some people found it a little funny.
What I don’t understand and never will, though, is how a story like that can actually consume an individual such as New York Times contributor Jennifer Weiner.
“It felt like medicine, like balm for a weary soul,” Weiner wrote Monday, after she had watched the video on repeat for, she said, 15 minutes. “It wasn’t until I’d watched the footage sped up, slowed down and from six angles and heard myself crooning, “Let me taste your tears!” that I started feeling a little sick, as if I’d gorged on Halloween candy. I realized that I was gloating. It was not a pleasant realization.”
Weiner said that she was, in fact, getting joy out of Trump’s “pain” and that she fretted over “the example it sets for my kids.”
This is what liberals have done to themselves. These are now the kinds of thoughts they have, not a single one of them unmolested by Trump.
This is similar to watching a perfectly healthy person mentally deteriorate at a rapid pace right before you.
Weiner continued, “Part of me wants to believe that this is fair, and even necessary: If ‘going low’ helped Mr. Trump take the White House, then we’d all better get in the mud to take it back. But another part of me worries about the price of pragmatism, and the way I felt, watching the ballpark video over and over, thinking not just I hope that works but I hope it hurt.”
What normal person has these thoughts? It must be exhausting.
Helpful reminder: These are the people who will be turning out in droves next November to pick the next president of the United States.
