Now that The Last Guy™ has been reduced to giving speeches to the clowns and rageaholics at CPAC (it stands for Clowns Playing At Competence), the media’s theme for the week was The $15 Minimum: Democrats Are Doing It Wrong, and they might be right. For example, Sen. Bernie Sanders criticized the WalMart-owning Walton family as paragons of greed but ignoring the real problem — the GOP’s “populist” constituency is small business owners who fear the wage hike.
Here’s a messaging tip, Democrats: If employers don’t pay workers enough to live on, taxpayers have to make up the difference. Republicans are still the anti-tax party, aren’t they? So why do they want to tax people to pay for benefits for the working poor? I realize most Republicans are too stupid to recognize a dilemma when they walk into one, but it’s always worth clarifying that for the non-idiot segment of the populace.
Washington Monthly frets that Democrats are doing it wrong on protecting voting rights, and lays out a plan to emphasize the right to vote — a right that’s not in the Constitution but could be established in spite of that.
This week’s Republican Mook of the Week is Madison Cawthorn, the young wheelchair-bound performance artist who lies as effortlessly as The Last Guy™, mostly about himself. He lied about the accident that left him a paraplegic (the driver rescued him; in Cawthorn’s telling, he was left alone to die) and just kept on going. This report followed one from BuzzFeed that found — you might want to sit down for this — that Cawthorn was a sexual predator while attending his “Christian” “college.”
In Covid news, the University of Delaware saw 300 new cases last week and is threatening a campus-wide lockdown if the situation doesn’t improve.
Finally, it appears the meat industry is running scared of artificial meat, funding an anti-Frankenfood propaganda campaign in an effort to stop its runaway growth. They have the resources, mainly because Big Meat operates in near-monopoly conditions that reformers would like Biden to address.
The floor’s yours.