No sense of humor: It’s all serious business for left-leaning minds

Published August 15, 2025 4:05am ET



Currently engaged in constant resistance to President Donald Trump‘s administration and its aggressive agenda, the Democratic Party and the Left are enduring bleak and uncertain times. And their grim political state of affairs may turn them away from a tool vital to their recovery — a sense of humor.

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