We do not expect satire to be the literal truth, but in order for it to be humorous, it must be based in some sense on truth. Kashana Cauley, over in the New Yorker, has written a humor item based upon just about the most untrue argument I could imagine reading in the pages of that publication. Entitled “I, a Conservative, Am Terrified by the Crime in a City I’ve Never Been To,” its entire thesis is that the crime fears driving New York voters are entirely the product of people who have never set foot in New York City.

This is part of a larger genre of tantrum, in which Democrats burrow ever-deeper into denial of reality in order to insist that the things voters are upset about don’t actually exist and are inventions of some right-wing media cabal. …

Would the Bill Clinton of the early ’90s — the guy who executed Ricky Ray Rector, called out Sister Souljah, and trumpeted the 1994 Crime Bill — have made the mistake of just mockingly dismissing real voter concerns about crime?

This is happening on many fronts.

[What do you expect Democrats and progressives to do — run on their record? BWA-HAHAHAHAHA. — Ed]