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I’m old-fashioned enough to think that this kind of thing should be done in private:

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This fantasizing has led to one of the scariest things in American journamalism, Frank Bruni trying to be witty. (“The city’s Mexican Day Parade would be rerouted, from Madison Avenue over to Fifth, right past Trump Tower. A new city zoning experiment would locate detention centers in the strangest places. And in the city’s libraries, “The Art of the Deal” would be impossible to find, while upfront, on vivid display, there’d be copies galore of “It Takes a Village” and “Hard Choices.” Oy, not to mention a reminder that Bruni got his sinecure by spending the 2000 campaign fawning over George W. Bush for the newspaper that is proud to have played a major role in Hillary Clinton’s email server management dominating coverage of the 2016 campaign.)

Weigel is excellent on how this particularly flavorless sausage gets made and why:

But the most basic problem is how it erases recent history. The theory of Hillary Clinton, candidate, entranced Democrats and media for a generation. She could do no wrong, until she began running for president, and then she could do no right. If you are not a member of the media, this seems deeply strange and phony. If it looks like the media’s going to lionize Clinton in defeat only so it can piñata her as a candidate, it seems not just strange, not just phony, but like the behavior of people who are more interested in entertainment than in the politics of peoples’ lives.

Still, I should add that nameless sources at apocryphal cocktail parties and Uber drivers who have chatted with Tom Friedman assure me that Hillary Clinton’s real agenda is to use her desire to run for mayor as a decoy for her inevitable primary challenge to Kirsten Gillibrand in 2018. Bookmark it — CATFIGHT 2018! Maureen Dowd is already drafting columns about it.

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