From the moment New York Times nag Jodi Kantor’s first story about Supreme Court Justice Alito’s private historical flag collection — there have since been another three, plus a podcast — hit the internet two weeks ago, it was obvious who was responsible for running to the newspaper with that piping hot scoop. As Kantor described the niggling informants in her latest article: “in their 30s, liberal and proud of it.”
Setting aside that the multi-week Washington drama has mostly served as an inconsequential debate over historical symbols and the nerds who love them, at its core, the story isn’t about “questions of Supreme Court’s impartiality,” activating my gag reflex. It’s about the vindictive, petty, anti-social behavior that has come to define America’s political left.
The “liberal and proud of it” couple that dashed to Kantor with a tip about the Alitos flying an upside-down American flag outside their Northern Virginia home in early 2021, laughably described as a supportive signal for the “Stop the Steal” protest, is a perfect manifestation of how modern Democrats conduct themselves. They instigate a personal conflict, involving perfect strangers no less, and then with passive aggression mastered by only the morally rancid left, they set out to wreck the reputations of innocent people while claiming themselves to be the victims.
“Aside from putting up a sign, we did not begin or instigate any of these confrontations,” the 30-something woman-half of the couple, Emily Baden, told Kantor, who further described Baden and her husband as having “participated
