Your reminder that every media figure in the past 10 years who posed as the defender of democracy just meant “I want libs to win elections and court cases.” https://t.co/j7gvajO364
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) June 28, 2025
Well, why not? "Liberals who claim 'democracy is dying' seem to view democracy as getting what you want when you want it." Stated bluntly! "When they referred to 'our democracy,' Democrats always meant 'our hegemony.'" Deviate from that hegemony at your peril. "It's always the 'we must protect our democracy' people who don't like the Constitution or institutions like the Supreme Court when they don't rule the way they want."
Thanks, feminists. "The partisan gender gap, begun some 40 years ago as feminists decried toxic masculinity, has been widening in recent years as bros recoil at toxic femininity."
The weekly round-up of mostly pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
1. Bastille Day. "A grubby glorification of proletarian violence."
3. Put it on the board, yes. "The era of ‘trust the universities, they’re doing the right thing’ has long since passed."
5. Their successors will be worse. "The aging Democratic establishment should probably be put out to pasture."
6. Our intellectual and cultural elite "can't wrap their minds around the fact that some cultures are sick beyond measure."
8. Influencer politics. "Nobody under the age of 60 is watching network TV, and everyone under the age of 60 has the attention span of a fruit fly."
10. Logic. "Isn’t admitting students with achievement gaps (i.e., underprepared) literally affirmative action?"
11. Reality. "America didn’t run out of smart people. It ran out of the will to cultivate them."
12. Spontaneous order? "Put a group of cute girls in tank tops with order pads in the middle of an open field. If a 'Hooters' magically springs up, you got yourself a theory."
13. Mullah this over. “This is more likely to open a new chapter of the 46-year-old US-Iran war than conclude it.”
14. Political appointees. "Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary." “Dimmest bulb in the theater.”
15. Commissar Obama. “‘Diversity of facts’ is how authoritarians justify censorship. Free societies don’t outsource truth to government regulators. Once the state becomes the arbiter of information, dissent becomes disinformation.”
17. Yes. Next question? "Was Stalin the forefather of Photoshop?"
18. If the boffins are so smart, why aren't they rich? "Industrial policy and even more industrial strategy are attractive labels for an age-old illusion that politicians and bureaucrats can boost economic growth by deciding where resources should be allocated."
21. Deconstruct institutions at your peril. "Shuttering the mental institutions and smashing the unions turned out to be surprisingly easy and, for the ramparts behind which real power lay, convenient indeed."
22. Unelected bureaucrats serve at the pleasure of Democrat presidents. "Anyone who thinks that the Trump administration’s modest efforts to control the growth of the metastasizing federal budget constitute 'fascism' is an idiot."
23. Precisely. "Denying the obvious really is the Democratic Party's core problem."
24. Wolf! Wolf!! WOLF!!! "The more warnings one receives about a disaster that doesn't end up happening, the less likely they are to take the next warning seriously."
25. No leadership? "The heroes on the ground did their part. The people at the top didn’t."
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