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Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Martyrs, Saints, and Grifters Upon the Waves Edition
The missing blue wave, impeachment martyrdom, the Fal-ings of self-awareness, and some places we got it right/wrong in Harsh Your Mellow Monday
The missing blue wave on the beaches of Iowa, the joke of impeachment martyrdom, the Fal-ings of self-awareness, and some places we got it right and others we got wrong in today’s edition of Harsh Your Mellow Monday. Let’s get after it.
From Whence Hast the Blue Wave Gone
Photo by Phil Roeder via Wikimedia Commons
Lost in the dumpster fire that was the Iowa Caucuses, one nugget of information didn’t make a lot of noise during the week but astute political followers latched on to almost immediately: What happened to that red-hot enthusiasm Team Blue was promised?
For all the drama, including the concern that the mishandling of the results means the end of Iowa’s storied role as an influential early state, there were other lingering worries in the aftermath of Monday’s caucuses. Where were all the people?
According to the state party, an estimated…
