Opinion by Greg Sargent: This Gen Z Democrat is deftly skewering right-wing fantasies
Frost went out of his way to get the explicit phrase “p---y a-- b----” into the congressional record. This made the moment viral and underscored the absurdity of the whole affair.
Older Democrats sometimes seem beholden to a picture of the GOP as it existed in the 1980s . In their nostalgic vision, bipartisanship was an ideal that could be maintainedBy contrast, younger Democrats came of age in the aftermath of Newt Gingrich’s scorched-earth politics, conspiracy theories about the Clintons, the partisan Supreme Court’s handing of the presidency to
George W. Bush, Karl Rove’s Iraq War propaganda, and the deranged “birtherism” directed at Barack Obama. Frost also chalks up this generational difference to younger Democrats’ experience of defining events such as police killings and mass shootings “via social media,” which he described as “unifying moments” of national “trauma.” Previously, Frost was an activist inHe uses a harder-edged approach when warranted, such as when he went after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s reactionary use of government power to limit free expression.
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