OPINION:
The Democratic Party is like the Cyclops after his blinding (“Hasan Piker will come back to bite Democrats,” Web, Aug. 17).
It is groping and stumbling for a secure stance as the socialist wing of the party — fortified by endorsements from normative Democrats for Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) primary winners — careens ahead.
Hasan Piker is not the genesis of the ruction, but he is energizing it with political opinions long festering during the on-going Trump exhaustion. These are attractive especially to young, inexperienced and historically illiterate voters who love being au courant as they sashay against the tide.
Mr. Piker is fashioning a new mascot for the party: a gender-fluid donkey with a Guernica-style facial rictus.
The “big tent” metaphor is a Band-Aid for minority leaders Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Hakeem Jeffries in the House, neither of whom has a clue how to stem the socialist tide.
They remind me of a poem by A.E. Housman: “I, a stranger and afraid/In a world I never made.”
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati, Ohio
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