It's a busy Tuesday for me on TV. I'm starting the day on the curvy couch with Steve, Ainsley and Brian at "Fox & Friends" just after 8am Eastern/5am Pacific - and closing it out with a full hour of grueling guest-hosting on "Tucker Carlson Tonight", across America at 8pm Eastern.
On Monday night Tucker and I talked over the Ocasio Cortez wave washing over the elderly Democrat lions in Congress. Click below to watch:
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My two cents:
There are two conflicts floating around in the Democratic Party miasma right now.
The first is Content versus No Content.
Ocasio-Cortez is in the Content Wing. She has lots of ideas, in other words.
Clinton is in the No Content Wing. Despite having run for president twice, she has never articulated any specific ideas, no policy proposals, at all. After all, "I'm entitled to this!" is not a "policy proposal". Nor is "I hate Donald Trump".
Which will win in the end: Content or No Content?
I think Content. Nature abhors a void, and so do most people. We prefer *any* proposed solution to a troubling problem, to no proposal at all.
And as Content begins to win out over No Content, the second conflict will become clear:
Absolutely Horrific Content (AHC) versus Only Slightly Less Horrific Content (OSLFC).
Ocasio-Cortez is the face of AHC. With only a few (accidental) exceptions (see "even a stopped clock is right twice a day"), she embodies every lethally idiotic idea of the past century. Their eventual cost? Massive human suffering.
Tim Ryan is the face of OSLHC. More of an old-time Democrat, he seems rooted in working-class economic issues. The campus crackpot identity politics wing, men having their penises removed and announcing they're now "women", etc., isn't really his thing.
So, question: If Content will eventually win out over No Content, which type of Content will win: Absolutely Horrific, or Only Slightly Less Horrific?
Answer: It doesn't matter, because one is an atomic bomb, and the other is creeping cancer. Both kill you - and the nation - in the end, just at different paces. And as a consequence, both must be rejected forever.