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 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 ongoing 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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