National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty, on today’s edition of The Editors, said that liberals’ reaction to Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial conviction points to “a kind of hedonic principle of pleasure.”
“You saw the New York Times printed an infographic that [read] 34 ‘guilties,’” Dougherty said. “And in their leading news story,” he pointed out, it “began with the word ‘guilty’ followed by a period 34 times . . . like it’s a kind of psychosexual perversion. Like it literally is this thrill that ‘We’re finally condemning Donald Trump.’
“And it’s such a bizarre event,” Dougherty said, “because in doing this, they’re not actually effecting the exorcism that they imagine. They are in fact doing the opposite, which is . . . revealing that their partisanship has corrupted the very institutions of justice and making half the country back away in horror from it and revolt against it.
“I think it’s a spectacularly short-sighted failure of the marshmallow test for progressives, and they’re going to reap consequences for it.”
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