On television and social media, modern liberals put on a good act.
They know, for instance, that the political culture requires them to engage in good-faith debate. At the same time, however, they have no interest in the reasoning process that leads to persuasion.
Monday on CNN, gun-control advocate and former Democratic National Committee co-chair David Hogg demonstrated as much when he tried to link the ongoing government shutdown to expiring Obamacare subsidies, forcing conservative commentator Scott Jennings to embarrass the 25-year-old Hogg with a series of unanswerable questions proving the emptiness of Hogg’s argument.
“The entire reason the government is not open right now is because Democrats refuse to be complicit in having millions of Americans, including 100,000 in Kentucky, your home state, if
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