Letter to the editor: Democrats are like Cyclops after his blinding

OPINION:

The Democratic Party is like the Cyclops after his blinding (“Hasan Piker will come back to bite Democrats,” Web, Aug. 17).

It is groping and stumbling for a secure stance as the socialist wing of the party — fortified by endorsements from normative Democrats for Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) primary winners — careens ahead.

Hasan Piker is not the genesis of the ruction, but he is energizing it with political opinions long festering during the on-going Trump exhaustion. These are attractive especially to young, inexperienced and historically illiterate voters who love being au courant as they sashay against the tide.

Mr. Piker is fashioning a new mascot for the party: a gender-fluid donkey with a Guernica-style facial rictus.

The “big tent” metaphor is a Band-Aid for minority leaders Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Hakeem Jeffries in the House, neither of whom has a clue how to stem the socialist tide.

They remind me of a poem by A.E. Housman: “I, a stranger and afraid/In a world I never made.”

PAUL BLOUSTEIN

Cincinnati, Ohio

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