Denial is a river you can watch in real time.

At the moment it flows from social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to social platform BlueSky, otherwise known as utopia.

In one sanctimonious declaration after another, Democrats are registering their disgust for the people they blame most for losing the 2024 presidential election.

The American people.

From the Democrats’ point of view, the 2024 presidential election was a test of character, and Americans came up wanting.

They elected a “fascist.”

So, Democrats are making their exodus from Platform X, whose owner they despise and whose users they deplore.

Elon Musk is not merely the richest man in the world and the guy who bought Twitter. He is now a member of Republican “Team Unity” that is returning Donald Trump to the White House.

Democrats won’t tolerate heresy like that, so there must be separation from the rabble, from the larger swath of America that voted one more time for Trump.

The Democrats will take their moral certitude to a social media domain more serene and high-minded, more controlled. A veritable heaven on earth.

BlueSky is the domain for good people — well-bred and mannered people. People of distinction with master’s degrees on their mantels and no gluten in their diets.

There in their warm blue bath they can chatter on about the climate crisis and the halcyon Obama years and never........

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