Description: As everyone in on the 5 PM Acela probably knows by now, former Politico CEO Jim VandeHei let loose a scorching take in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal that attempts to solve the political dysfunction between "Establishment America" and "Normal America." VandeHei's prescription, in short, is that the only cure for the anti-establishment vulgarity of Donald Trump and working-class
As everyone in on the 5 PM Acela probably knows by now, former Politico CEO Jim VandeHei let loose a scorching take in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal that attempts to solve the political dysfunction between “Establishment America” and “Normal America.” VandeHei’s prescription, in short, is that the only cure for the anti-establishment vulgarity of Donald Trump and working-class outrage of Senator Bernie Sanders is an independent, third-party candidate for President—possibly the too-young Facebook founder M
The Bloomberg-as-savior thought experiment is an old trope, but VandeHei’s article wasn’t just “ Morning Joe filler segment” bad, it was so hot and stinky to inspire its own universe of reaction takes. You’ll be spared another here, but in lieu of that, here are some superlative awards for some of the reactions VandeHei elicited:
Isaac Chotiner calls VandeHei’s column “one of the more clueless and despicable op-eds I have read from a current or former journalist. That it manages to be at once both sinister and utterly banal is its signal achievement.” That’s just the lede.