Countdown to Meltdown?

My mentor M. Stanton Evans liked to say that “There is no absurdity that you can invent that a liberal will not state seriously.” (An alternate formulation: “Liberalism today is impossible to satirize, since there is no absurdity it will not embrace in pursuit of ideological obsession.”)

And thus one of his favorite quips starting about 20 years back was that “We young conservatives had to get over the Goldwater defeat without grief counselors.” But behold, in the New York Times:

Gee, I wonder which candidate they fear will cause kids to crumble if he (as opposed to the they/them candidate) wins? The article doesn’t say. But you can guess that Hillsdale College students won’t need counseling in the event Harris wins.

Chaser: Jerry Seinfeld is mentioned in the story:

The comedian Jerry Seinfeld, whose two sons attended Fieldston, said decisions like this one exasperated his family and led his younger son to transfer in the eighth grade to Riverdale Country School, another elite school in the Bronx.

“This is why the kids hated it,” Mr. Seinfeld said in a phone interview on Thursday night. “What kind of lives have these people led that makes them think that this is the right way to handle young people? To encourage them to buckle. This is the lesson they are providing, for ungodly sums of money.”

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