The line between politics and entertainment grows blurrier with each passing hour. Consider: As the battle over President Trump’s second Supreme Court nomination began to take shape, millions of conservatives in search of expert analysis tuned into . . . Tomi Lahren.
“Pressing for a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would be a huge mistake,” the 25-year-old pundit suggested. “We lose when we start tampering with social issues.”
That last assertion is self-evidently preposterous, but we’ll forgive the Fox News commentator on the grounds that she was three months old when Bill Clinton was elected in 1992. It would be terrific, though, if she would use her no doubt capable mind to contemplate some of the nuances and complications of reforming our abortion laws in a way that makes the United States a more just and humane society. But we’re not counting on that happening.
“I’m going to be honest with you,” she said in a 2016 interview. “I’m not a reader. I don’t like to read long books. I like to read news. So I couldn’t tell you that there was a book that I read that changed my life. More so, I love to read news and I love to read commentary and I love to watch TV. I love to watch news. I’m a watcher and I’m a writer. A reader in the sense that I like to read news but I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.”
