It Is Impossible to Be Too Cynical (About the Democratic-Legacy Media Axis)

Beware the overly jacked Congressdude.

Until last week, Eric Swalwell, who represents a deep blue district in northern California, was a leading Democratic candidate to become the state’s next governor. Now Swalwell, whose chin and shoulders suggest heavy steroid use, extreme self-regard, or both, is in what savvy political analysts call deep doodoo.

Turns out Swalwell — who is married with children — has been putting his, umm, representative in places he shouldn’t. On Friday, CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle ran investigations about his alleged misconduct. One former staffer claims he raped her. Other women claim he hit on them, sent them unsolicited pictures (and I don’t mean family photos), or otherwise acted like Matt Gaetz during sorority week.

The Matt Gaetz reference is deliberate. Let’s not pretend Democrats are the only ones guilty of this nonsense. Cory Mills and Tony Gonzalez would like a word as well. Congress these days appears to be split between drooling veterans of the War of 1812 and The Real Horndogs of Capitol Hill. Coincidentally, it is not exactly fulfilling its Article I responsibilities to the max. Sigh.1

But I digress. Yes, it seems beyond doubt at this point Swalwell is a serial adulterer and sexual predator who at one point allegedly had an “improper” relationship with a Chinese spy with the too-good-to-be-true name of “Fang Fang