Nobody cares who the New York Times endorses

There’s conceit, there’s pomposity, and then there’s the New York Times editorial board. Yesterday, the Grey Lady wiggled her well-connected bottom, cocked a leg authoritatively, and let her hotly anticipated Democratic primary endorsement rip through cyberspace. ‘In a break with convention,’ declared the board, breaking wind with tradition, ‘the editorial board has chosen to endorse two separate Democratic candidates’.

What? Hold the front page! No wait, they already have!

This is big news — at least it is in the la-la land of elite legacy media. Nobody in the real world will take much notice, of course, beyond those of us who feel disgusted by the nauseating arrogance and weak-mindedness behind the paper’s feminist grandstanding. We all know, in our hearts, that the NYT’s support for Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar will do nothing to boost their respective candidacies. If anything, it will further harm two already struggling women contenders by making them seem even more elitist and out-of-touch — another great example of the way in which performative feminism ends up destroying that which it claims to advance.