At Least You’re Not Ken Martin

Nobody knows the Democratic Party’s mood like its national committee chairman. It’s bleak, and there’s little cause for optimism. Ken Martin cannot give his co-partisans any reason for optimism, so he opted instead to emphasize the bleak.

“Democrats, make no mistake, a storm is coming,” Martin said at the outset of the Democratic National Committee’s Minnesota summit on Monday. “In fact, it’s already here.” What we have today is “fascism dressed in a red tie.”