It can lead to liberal complacency and then liberal defeat. My Bloomberg Opinion column goes into two New York Times stories — front-pagers on two successive days — that offered liberal readers comforting stories that won’t serve them well in the long run.
The first of them concerned a new poll of Hispanic voters.
The poll says they favor Democrats over Republicans 56%–32%. Those look like pretty strong numbers for the Democrats. Until you look at the ones for the last midterm election, in 2018, when Latinos went 69%–29% for Democrats. The margin has shrunk from 40 to 24 percentage points.
Then I go into the next day’s example, which is significantly worse: a whitewashing of the record of the Women’s March and its leaders. They produced a fiasco, but the Times is apparently committed to keeping its readers from learning anything from it.