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I too have been saying for years (and heard Larry Kudlow say it this AM on the radio) that Kennedy was the true pioneer of the demagogic rhetoric that has come to define
the public face of the Far Left, ever since the extreme verbiage he used at the Bork hearings over twenty years ago. I guess his fellow Lefties heard it, saw how it went over, and built on it, OTSOG, as it were. It became the signature style for Clintonistas starting from the very beginning, as practiced and perfected by such luminaries as Paul Begala, James Carville, and countless “strategists” who’ve been fouling our airwaves for over two decades now.
They’ve become very adept as putting forth a certain
Master Thespian acting style in which (MOCK) moral outrage and gross overstatement go hand in hand, the search for truth and illumination gets thrown out the window, and Memorable Snarkiness is the high point of every appearance. Ultimately they are all ACTORS, and they’ve been building their audience very patiently. That audience is still there, but its ranks are already thinning. All that remains very soon will be the truly hard-core. Nobody has EVER called them on this entirely hollow “presentation of self”, so they’ve been enabled by their “enemies” every bit as much as their “friends”.