The Broken Left

President Trump’s continued success has decimated the left, and now they’re grasping at straws

POLITICS: By Walter Curt

Over the long weekend, the professional outrage industry produced its Mona Lisa: a Politico headline that read—without irony—“Trump denies he’s dead.” It wasn’t a parody account, and it wasn’t the Onion. It was a straight news item with three bylines, the kind of team you usually assemble for a corruption scandal or a war, not f…