Politico’s Ben Smith has a story — I found it on something called Village Soup — about the Left’s “coordinated echo chamber” (their words), which is notable for its refreshing candor.

Note Smith’s sensible employment of the phrase “global warming theory” — for which he has surely been subjected to gang green’s noise machine. Good on him, though we may not see it written there again, if their treatment of his Politico colleague Erika Lovley and her subsequent retreat from such “edgy” reporting on the matter is any indicator.

Note especially the candor in serial assertions that, yes, each morning a left-wing band begins their day with a conference call to identify anyone who opposes them, and then set out in orderly fashion to smear them. The entire focus is to assail the speaker, and no one so much as hints at a desire to engage on the substance, to persuade and prevail on the merits.

It is instead, as we see time and again — heck, I wrote a book about it — their playbook as most aggressively employed in the “global warming” context. The overwhelming odor of this first instinct to smear never fails to surprise me.

Apparently Team Soros feels that its facts and arguments are as feeble across the board as they are on “global warming.” Or else the Left really hasn’t changed that much since their heyday in the ‘30s. It’s increasingly clear their policies haven’t.