What Profits the New York Times to Gain ‘the World?’

The New York Times editorial board’s unctuous effort to drive Democratic turnout this year — as if Times readers needed the prodding — makes no attempt at persuasion. It speaks directly to the progressive id, asking them to “imagine” a Washington in which Democrats block “tax cuts” and theatrically berate Trump administration officials in televised hearings. Given the absence of an “affordability” agenda to accompany the Democratic Party’s “affordability” message, the paper’s focus on the political drama to which we’ll be privy next year makes sense.

The editorial’s blanket endorsement of the Democratic Party’s candidates, however, includes an admission as funny as it is revealing. “If Democrats retake both houses of Congress, and more state governments than they now control,” the Times’ editors wrote, “it will tell the world that Mr. Trump does not represent most Americans.”