If there’s any question who my favorite op-ed writer at the FLS is at the moment, it’s Dave Smalley by a mile:
It goes beyond differing political prescriptions. This is a democracy; we’re supposed to have differences. But when we see a party whose leading senator publicly uses words like ‘idiot’ and ‘loser’ to describe the president of the United States, that’s not politics–that’s an obsession.
When we have the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate comparing our troops to Nazis, Stalinists, and the Khmer Rouge, that’s not merely unfair–it’s pathological.
When the chairman of the Democratic Party says he hates Republicans and ‘everything they stand for,’ that’s not just the worst way to win new supporters–it’s narcissistic and self-destructive.
Can’t we all get along?
If you aren’t an avid reader of the FLS, or are and just haven’t taken the time to read Smalley’s op-eds, do so. It’s always red meat, always well-written, and always an argument that either gives you reason to think or reflect.
I eagerly await the Democratic response (if any).