In his latest Washington Post column George Will piles on the Democrats for their feckless performance in the Iowas caucuses:
The progressive party’s Iowa caucuses were a hilarious parody of progressive governance — ambitious, complex, subtle and a carnival of unintended consequences. The party that promises to fine-tune everything, from the production of wealth to the allocation of health care to the administration of education, produced a fittingly absurd climax to what surely was Iowa’s final strut as a national distraction.
He continues in a similar vein, critiquing the remaining Democratic presidential candidates.
I think that Democrats have made multiple errors with respect to the Iowa caucuses, by far the most serious of which is their reaction to the snafu. They should not have criticized the failure. They definitely should not have expressed the panic I heard from some quarters. “Keep calm and carry on” should have been the mantra. Instead, the entire debacle but especially their own criticisms will be fodder for the Trump campaign’s sharp criticism of all things Democratic from now until November. That will be a force multiplier to whatever other criticisms are lodged against them. No wonder Rahm Emanuel is panicking over what’s happening.
It’s still far too early to start trumpeting the outcome of the caucuses. What’s important is not just a minority of the precincts but which precincts they were. However, the reactions become news themselves and may mar the the campaigns of more than one of the candidates who are still standing but Joe Biden in particular.
