You know, social media is not a total intellectual wasteland. There's a fun game going on over there: Which top three people who are no longer with us do you wish were alive today to comment on what's happening with the country?
Lots of people said "Molly Ivins" right away — and we didn't want to be copycats. So we tweeted out Janet Reno, Barbara Jordan and Margaret Chase Smith.
How wonderful it would be to hear Jordan's commanding voice again, talking about the diminution of the Constitution. (After three years of listening to Benedict Donald's fourth-grade vocabulary, just having anyone in public life smart enough to use a word like "diminution" would be heavenly.)
Smith is another good choice because she was a lone voice against her party, berating her fellow Republicans for not standing up to the bullying of Joseph McCarthy. And she was a Senator from Maine (!). Just imagine Maggie coming back from the dead to smack Susan Collins around like Bette Davis cat-fighting with Miriam Hopkins.
To be honest, we're torn about Janet Reno — on the one hand, she was an incorruptible, straight-arrow, I-will-follow-the-law-and-never-lie-to-you public servant. Surely she'd be excoriating the despicable Bill Barr. On the other hand, she'd be sad to see the damage that's being done to her beloved DOJ. So maybe it's better that she's resting in peace.
Other candidates include: Sam Ervin, Elliot Richardson, Barry Goldwater, and every dead President who was besieged by scandal in office — Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, Ronald Reagan... and yep, Richard Nixon. Actually, particularly Richard Nixon. We think he'd be appalled. We cats HISS.
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