Peggy Noonan outdoes herself, sneers that Obama’s presidency means “Anyone can run for president now

Peggy Noonan cannot believe they are letting the riffraff have a say in how this country is governed. Her latest op-ed, published in the Wall Street Journal, is a series of would-be observations that only hang together on the common thread that is her barely stifled outrage that we will let just anyone vote these days. You’d think this country was a democracy, it’s gotten so out of control!

After a little preliminary longing for Joe Biden to get into the race to nudge that crass woman Hillary Clinton out of the lead, Noonan really digs into her hell-in-a-handbasket theme. “The 2016 primary is a rush to the left,” she frets. “We are now not embarrassed to argue America should be more like Denmark, we are proudly socialist or severely progressive, and by the way Republicans are the enemy.” Oh no, not Denmark, a country no doubt full of unembarrassed vulgarians. They probably wear white shoes after Labor Day, you know. Noonan doesn’t know, but she can probably guess. If Sanders likes them, they must be an uncouth country full of bike-riding hippies.

But what really puffs Noonan full of indignation is this ridiculous business of Democrats acting like Republicans are the opposition. “Asked which enemy she was proudest to have made, Mrs. Clinton mentioned the NRA, the Iranians, some others and ‘probably the Republicans.’ She was smiling, but if any GOP hopeful declared ‘the Democrats’ to be on his enemies list he would be roundly condemned as polarizing,” Noonan huffs.

Well, no one can deny that Noonan is a master class in self-delusion, that’s for sure. It takes a lot to get to the idea the Republicans are the polite, cooperative party and that the Democrats are the conflict-stoking partisans. It’s not the Democrats who have made attempted government shutdowns in service of partisan temper tantrums a multi-annual event. “If Hillary feels free to speak of the Republicans as enemies it’s because she knows there is a portion of the base that is angry, polarized and ready to respond to an aggressive tone,” Noonan whines.

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