01-29-2021, 08:44 AM
btfc wrote:
I don’t see the comparison with AOC as particularly valid.
It took reading through the article comments, and rereading the opening a time or two, but I am 95% of the way there in seeing that he wasn’t making that comparison himself. Chait was, a little too off handedly I’d say, pointing at the Axios article he mentions in the beginning for making that equivalency.
The difference maker is here,
”The leading Democratic mischief-maker is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who advocates some left-wing views I consider simplistic and impractical and, in some cases, poll badly. The top example of a conservative mischief-maker, [dripping with sarcasm tag->] presented in perfect symmetry,[/ <- dripping with sarcasm tag] is Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
Add that missing non-existent sarcasm tag, and the WTF goes away.