The title of this column is a line from the terrific movie Moneyball. In it, Billy Beane (in an outstanding performance from Brad Pitt), the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is angered when he sees his players are having a good time in the locker room despite being in the midst of a losing streak. So he asks, “Is losing fun?” When the players sheepishly respond, “No,” he asks the question.

Beane, of course, had a good reason for his fun-skeptic outburst. But, unfortunately, there is a strain within the Left that doesn’t want you to have any fun, and it has nothing to do with losing baseball games.