My favorite quirk of such pieces is that the links never take you to the actual ideas being discussed, but only to previous hit pieces on the ideas. After all, one can’t risk exposing the reader to infection by the actual words of the political enemy.

For some reason I keep thinking about the saga of the Little Sisters of the Poor, beginning back at the end of the second Obama administration. It had, in miniature, the key elements of liberal political psychology that afflicted the Biden administration and the Harris campaign: the compulsive aggression and imprudence of liberal government, which ends up defeating itself through the inability to exercise even a modicum of political self-restraint, combined with the total inability of the aggressors to understand why anyone could doubt their rectitude.

Friends, my annual reminder: Be wary. Tonight is All Hallows’ Eve — the one night in the year when, by a mysterious privilege, doomed spirits, nosferatu, shape-shifters, hags, ghouls, neoconservatives (but I repeat myself), legal positivists, and even journalists are allowed to prowl the world, seeking the ruin of souls.