You’d have to be some sort of hick from the sticks to take a Hunter Biden criminal conviction into account in deciding on your 2024 presidential vote.
That was Molly Jong-Fast’s gist on today’s Way Too Early, the Morning Joe pregame show. When host Jonathan Lemire asked the MSNBC political analyst whether there could be a negative political impact for Joe Biden stemming from a Hunter conviction, she suggested only hayseeds who can’t make fine moral distinctions could be misled:
“Yeah, I mean, I think, look, you know, there are low-information voters who are like, oh, they’re both in trouble with the law..”
Oh, those déclassé low-information voters! The kind who, unlike Jong-Fast, didn’t attend the Riverdale Country School and Barnard, and score a Master of Fine Arts from Bennington College. And whose mother isn’t the best-selling feminist novelist Erica…
