Jarrod Ramos Identified as Shooter in Maryland Newspaper Mass Murder

Posted on | June 29, 2018 | 2 Comments

When I went to sleep Thursday night, my post about the shooting at the offices of the Annapolis Capital had been updated six times, and the media had (incorrectly, as it turned out) reported that the gunman was “a white male in his 20s.” On Twitter, leftists were going crazy with speculation that somehow this atrocity was inspired by President Trump’s frequent criticism of the media’s “fake news.”

Having been through similar situations so many times — a bombing or shooting, watching people on the Internet engaging in baseless guesswork about the motive and perpetrators — I urged caution:

It is important to avoid speculation in the immediate aftermath of incidents like this. What was the gunman’s motive? We don’t know, because we don’t even know who the gunman is yet. Of course, it’s possible that the shooter had some sort of political motive, but so far we have no evidence to indicate what that motive might be.

Was it political terrorism and, if so, what kind of politics? Is the killer a radical Muslim? Or some kind of “right-winger”? That’s what such speculation is about — people trying to score political points from mass murder — and it’s distasteful, not to mention foolish.

Just wait, I always say when these things happen, and let’s get the facts first. Overnight, the facts finally emerged:

A Laurel man with a long-standing grudge against The Capital is being held as the suspect in the deadly shooting Thursday at the Annapolis newspaper, according to law enforcement sources.
Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder, according to online court records. . . .
In 2012, Ramos filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper and a columnist over a July 2011 article that covered a criminal harassment charge against him.
He brought the suit against then-columnist Eric Hartley, naming Capital Gazette Communications and Thomas Marquardt, the paper’s former editor and publisher, as defendants. . . .
Marquardt said he wasn’t surprised to hear Ramos identified as the alleged gunman, saying he started harassing the paper and its staff shortly after the 2011 article. The harassment escalated for years with online threats, Marquardt said.
“I was seriously concerned he would threaten us with physical violence,” Marquardt said from his retirement home in Florida. “I even told my wife, ‘We have to be concerned. This guy could really hurt us.’ ”
Marquardt said he called the Anne Arundel County police about Ramos in 2013, but nothing came of it. He consulted the paper’s lawyers about filing a restraining order, but decided against it.
“I remember telling our attorneys, ‘This is a guy who is going to come in and shoot us,’ ” he said.
Ramos’ aunt Vielka Ramos, 59, said she couldn’t believe he was the suspected gunman. She said her nephew had a good childhood, growing up in Severn, and attended Arundel High School.
“He was very intelligent. He would try to communicate with people but he was a loner,” she said.
After his grandmother died several years ago, she said, he stopped attending family gatherings. She had not talked to him in several years, the aunt said.
“He was distant from the family. He just wasn’t close to anybody,” she said.
In the 2011 column about the harassment charge, Hartley identified Jarrod Ramos as a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employee with no previous criminal record and a degree in computer engineering.
The harassment case centered on an online relationship Ramos tried to kindle with a former high school classmate. Hartley’s column said Ramos sent a friend request on Facebook to the woman, and the experience turned into a “yearlong nightmare.” Ramos allegedly wrote the woman and said she was the only person who ever said hello to him or was nice to him in school.
Ramos then allegedly called her vulgar names and told her to kill herself, Hartley wrote. He allegedly emailed the bank where she worked to get her fired. Ramos pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor harassment charge, receiving probation from a judge who called his behavior “rather bizarre,” the column said.
Ramos’ subsequent defamation suit against The Capital worked its way through the Maryland courts until 2015, when the state’s second-highest court upheld a ruling in favor of the newspaper.

This guy was a cliché, a stereotype of a deranged loner, and he should have been locked up in a lunatic asylum or a prison. Because I’ve had to deal with this kind of psycho — in 2013, I was one of the defendants in a baseless defamation suit, and in 2016, a guy who targeted my family for SWATting was sentenced to federal prison — I have repeatedly warned readers: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

Nothing is more dangerous than the delusion of victimhood which is so typical of sociopathic personalities. No matter how obvious it is that they are responsible for their own personal problems, sociopaths refuse to accept responsibility, instead engaging in rationalizations that shift the blame to their scapegoated “enemies” who, in reality, are just innocent law-abiding citizens who had the misfortune of attracting the sociopath’s attention. The former high-school classmate who became the object of Ramos’s fixated obsession was the first target of the sociopath’s dangerous craziness, and he might have continued stalking her forever, had Eric Hartley not distracted him by writing about the case:

The victim, who asked that her name not be printed, said she lived in fear for her safety for months. The emails started in late 2009 or early 2010 — she can’t remember exactly, because it was only a few months later that they grew disturbing and she started documenting things. At first, she felt bad for him, so she shared some personal information and offered advice.
“But when it seemed to me that it was turning into something that gave me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, that he seems to think there’s some sort of relationship here that does not exist … I tried to slowly back away from it, and he just started getting angry and vulgar to the point I had to tell him to stop,” she told the judge. “And he was not OK with that. He would send me things and basically tell me, ‘You’re going to need restraining order now.’ ‘You can’t make me stop. I know all these things about you.’ ‘I’m going to tell everyone about your life.'”

Crazy People Are Dangerous, and one of the things a sociopath can’t stand is for someone to tell the truth about their craziness. When you come to the defense of their victims — when you tell the story of the sociopath’s wrongdoing — you become the next scapegoated “enemy.”

Well, I’m sure John Hoge and I will discuss this case Saturday night on The Other Podcast. We have both had to suffer with the consequences of a notorious sociopath’s deranged pursuit of revenge.

UPDATE: Speaking of my friend John Hoge — great minds think alike — he quotes the judge who rejected Ramos’s defamation lawsuit:

“I think people who are the subject of newspaper articles, whoever they may be, feel that there is a requirement that they be placed in the best light, or they have an opportunity to have the story reported to their satisfaction, or have the opportunity to have however much input they believe is appropriate,” Judge Maureen M. Lamasney said when dismissing the case. “But that’s simply not true. There is nothing in those complaints that prove that anything that was published about you is, in fact, false.”

The truth is an ironclad defense against claims of libel, under U.S. law, where freedom of the press and freedom of speech always prevail over whatever “rights” the criminal sociopath imagines himself to possess. Some people (and Brett Kimberlin is a textbook example) seem to believe that they have a “right” to a good reputation, no matter what crimes they commit. Convicted in federal court of serious violent felonies, Kimberlin has spent decades thinking of himself as a victim, and demonizing anyone who tells the truth about him. Kimberlin has bragged about his pro se lawfare as a means of harassing anyone he targets as an enemy.

“I have filed over a hundred lawsuits and another
one will be no sweat for me. On the other hand,
it will cost you a lot of time and money . . .”

Kimberlin’s infamous reputation is well-deserved, and he should never be able to deceive any honest and intelligent person. Every American is entitled to their day in court, of course, but convicted criminals should not be allowed to use lawsuits as a weapon against people who tell the truth. Judges need to be able to impose harsh sanctions against criminals who file lawsuits like the one Ramos filed against the Annapolis Capital, or the various baseless lawsuits filed by Kimberlin. When I call someone a dangerous son of a bitch who ought to be in prison, this is defensible as the expression a personal opinion, my lawyer friends say, although I insist that I’m stating a neutral objective fact.

Category: Crime, Maryland, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 06.28.18

Posted on | June 28, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.28.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Jeffrey Toobin, STFU
Twitchy: WaPo Fact Check Torpedoes Dem/Media SCOTUS Narrative
Louder With Crowder: Whoopi Goldberg Demands Everyone “Stay Out Of Her Vagina”. Who Wanted In?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Selling Our Childrens’ Future
American Thinker: ICE At Bay – Siege At Portland Continues As Similar Insurrections Spread Nationwide
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Messed Up Mexico News
BattleSwarm: Former Democrat State Senator Uresti Gets 12 Years For Fraud, also, Brexit Now Official
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: The Left Wants YOU! As Their Next Kent State Martyr, also, Pintastic NE 2018 Starts Today!
Don Surber: Peter Fonda Joins The Trump Schadenfreude List
Dustbury: When You Shouldn’t Brag
Fausta: A Return To Civility?
First Street Journal: #TrumpDerangementSyndrome Anyone?
The Geller Report: Muslim Brotherhood Rep Hakim Muhammad (a/k/a Keith Ellison) Melts Down When Questioned About Farrakhan, also, Mike Pence Lays Down The Law To Central Americans
Hogewash: I Was Told The Attack Was Caused By A Video, also, Oumuamua Speeds Up
JustOneMinute: Going South Of The Border For Some Fake News
Legal Insurrection: CA Supremes – Bullet Stamping Law Survives Despite Being Impossible To Comply With, also, UMass Will Continue Offering “Resistance Studies” This Fall
Michelle Malkin: The #AbolishICE Fringe Is Now The Democrat Party Center
The PanAm Post: Nurses Strike In Venezuela – The Complete Collapse Of The Healthcare System
Power Line: Rod Rosenstein – It Ain’t Me, Babe, also, House Vote Adds To Pressure On DOJ
Shark Tank: Republican Immigration Bill Fails
Shot In The Dark: I Hate To Indulge In Schadenfreude
STUMP: SCOTUS Doings – Public Employee Union Dues And Justice Kennedy
The Jawa Report: Where’s Dr. Rusty? Down Under Edition
The Political Hat: Unwoke – Problematic Horse, Oppressive Bell, And Non-Heathen Leadership
This Ain’t Hell: Military Religious Freedom Foundation v. U.S. Navy Hospital Okinawa, also, Thursday Morning Feelgood Stories
Victory Girls: Laura Ingalls Wilder No Longer Acceptable Because Identity Politics And Racism!
Volokh Conspiracy: Say Goodbye To The Kennedy Court
Weasel Zippers: Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Raising Taxes To Fund Socialist Policies, also, SC Man Pleads Guilty To Lying About Military Service; Collected $200K From VA
Megan McArdle: Behold The Priest-Kings Of The Future Supreme Court
Mark Steyn: Extreme? I’ll Show You Extreme

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The Worst People in the World Are in Charge of Our Public Education System

Posted on | June 28, 2018 | Comments Off on The Worst People in the World Are in Charge of Our Public Education System

Recent news from the Department of Stupidity and Corruption:

Lest you thought we were finished with tales of unfathomable incompetence on the part of Broward County, Florida, authority figures, consider this: The first Marjory Stoneman Douglas security guard who spotted Nikolas Cruz on campus and took no action to detain him was previously suspended for sexually harassing students.
Due to his inaction during the shooting, Andrew Medina was initially reassigned to an administrative position elsewhere in the Broward County school system. But on Tuesday, the superintendent finally decided to terminate his employment.
Medina worked as an unarmed security guard at Stoneman Douglas. In 2017, a disciplinary panel recommended that he be fired for sexually harassing two female students. (One of those students, Meadow Pollack, was later killed in the shooting.) But school officials decided to suspend Medina for three days instead, according to CBS News.
On the day of the shooting, Medina was the first school official to spot Cruz — who was no longer welcome at the school, and known to be a threat. He did not confront Cruz, and apparently failed to realize that Cruz was armed. He took no action, other than radioing another unarmed security guard, David Taylor, to inform him that Cruz was headed his way. When the shooting started, Taylor hid in a janitor’s closet, according to The Sun Sentinel. He was initially reassigned as well, but has now been fired.
Unlike School Resource Officer Scot Peterson — who also proved to be incompetent — neither Medina nor Taylor were armed. But if Medina wasn’t aware that Cruz was armed, he should have pursued him. If he was aware, but was afraid to approach, at the very least he should have made a “code red” call. He did not.

This incompetent “security monitor” is 39 years old:

According to records obtained by the South Florida SunSentinel, Medina, who is also an assistant baseball coach, asked one girl to go on a date and another said he made lewd comments to her and said he wanted to visit her at work. Broward County Schools investigators say one of the students’ stories was corroborated by surveillance video of Medina approaching her in a hallway on Feb. 16, 2017.
According to [Meadow’s father] Andrew and [her brother] Hunter Pollack, Meadow was one of the girls. They said Medina would call Meadow, then 17, “beautiful and sweetheart,” making her uncomfortable. They say that when her boyfriend confronted Medina, Medina threatened him. Meadow and her mother then reported Medina, they said.
Hunter Pollack said the other girl told him Medina made comments about her body and invited her over to his house for drinks.
“If I knew at the time, he would have been fired right away,” Hunter Pollack told CBS Miami. “It’s very unacceptable that the school board allowed this pervert to say stuff to my sister and other girls.”

Yeah, you’re a 39-year-old guy hired to protect kids at a high school, and instead you’re making moves on 17-year-old girls. When the girls complain, the school system only gives you a three-day suspension and then you don’t bother calling cops when a notorious psycho shows up on campus and kills everybody. Public education is so excellent!

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Education

UPDATED: At Least Five Dead in Shooting at Annapolis, Md., Newspaper Office, Suspect Is a Young White Male

Posted on | June 28, 2018 | 1 Comment

Breaking news from Maryland’s state capital:

A shooting has occurred at the Capital Gazette in Anne Arundel County, a paper that is owned by The Baltimore Sun, according to reports from Gazette staff.
Anne Arundel County Police confirmed there was an “active shooter” at 888 Bestgate Road, where the newspaper’s offices are located. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed it was responding to a “shooting incident” at the Gazette.
Phil Davis, a Gazette reporter, said that multiple people had been shot. Police did not immediately respond to requests for further information.
Police were also at The Baltimore Sun newsroom in Baltimore. Police said there was no threat on the Sun, and that their presence was a precaution.

UPDATE: CBS News:

A law enforcement source confirms to CBS News’ Jeff Pegues that there are injuries.
An aerial view shows a massive police presence and people being led out of a building with their hands raised. Medevac helicopters could also be seen responding.
White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters says President Trump has been briefed on the shooting and “our thoughts and prayers are with all that are affected.”

CNN says sources tell them one person is in custody, although it is not clear whether this is the shooter, and the motive is still unknown.
UPDATE II: Annapolis is about 30 miles south of Baltimore, which is one of the most violent cities in America:

Baltimore has set a new per-capita homicide record as gunmen killed for drugs, cash, payback — or no apparent reason at all.
A surge of homicides in the starkly divided city resulted in 343 killings in 2017, bringing the annual homicide rate to its highest ever — roughly 56 killings per 100,000 people.

Baltimore is second only to St. Louis for highest per capita murder rate. Whether this has any relevance to the shooting in Annapolis, I don’t know, but the point is that six people are murdered during an average week in Baltimore, without ever attracting national media attention, but this shooting at an Annapolis newspaper office is all over CNN.

UPDATE III: Fox News reports:

Multiple deaths were confirmed in Maryland on Thursday after a suspect opened fire outside of the Capital Gazette’s newsroom in Anne Arundel County — as journalists covering the terrifying scene inside their building.
The suspect was apprehended, Sheriff Ron Bateman told Fox News, but local police confirmed news of an “active shooter situation” on Twitter. The FBI’s Baltimore field office has responded to the scene.
Amid the shooting, reporters and employees for the local newspaper continued to do their jobs.
Anthony Messenger, an intern for the news outlet, tweeted of an “active shooter” at 888 Bestgate — the office building of the Gazette. “Please help us,” Messenger wrote.
Reporter Phil Davis detailed more information of what happened in his newsroom online, writing: “A single shooter shot multiple people at my office, some of whom are dead.”
“Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees,” he said. Davis said that while he couldn’t give a conclusive number of fatalities, “it’s bad.”

UPDATE IV: In a news conference at the scene, authorities confirmed “several” fatalities and “several” wounded. The suspect is in custody and “is being interviewed by detectives.”

UPDATE V: According to CBS News, the shooter is a white male in his 20s who wasn’t carrying any identification and refused to tell authorities his identity. At least five people are dead, while the number of wounded has not been confirmed.

UPDATE VI: CBS News adds further details:

The suspect accused of killing five people in a shooting at a Maryland newspaper had damaged the tips of his fingers in an apparent attempt to thwart efforts by police to identify him by his fingerprints, a law enforcement officials tells CBS News. Authorities said the suspect is a white male in his 20s who they have not yet identified. . . .
The suspect did not have identification on his person. He’s described as having long hair. A law enforcement source says authorities are using other means of identifying him, including facial recognition technology to search databases of passports and driver’s licenses.
A law enforcement source said he carried smoke bombs or flash bangs in his backpack. Police said he used a “long gun” in the shooting, which a source said was a shotgun.
CBS News has also learned the gunman opened fire through the glass door into the newsroom. Eyewitness told authorities the shots sent reporters and other employees under desks and other hiding places.
Pegues reports that investigators will be trying determine the suspect’s motive. They will try to recover the suspect’s electronic devices — if there are any — and to see if he has any social media accounts.

Category: Crime, Maryland

In The Mailbox: 06.27.18

Posted on | June 28, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Joe For America seems to have hung up his blogging jock, so with Fausta still on the DL, we’re adding PanAm Post to the blogroll at her suggestion.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #299
EBL: SCOTUS Donkey Punches Government Unions
Twitchy: Hot Take – With Justice Kennedy Retiring, It’s Time To Report To The Death Camps
Louder With Crowder: Listen To DNC Hearing Of Justice Kennedy’s Retirement

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Conservative Madness On Immigration, also, Podcast #86 – The Immigration Episode
American Power: Michelle Malkin – The #AbolishICE Fringe Has Become The Democrats’ Mainstream
American Thinker: Leftist Hypocrisy Just Keeps On Coming
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Additional SCOTUS News
BattleSwarm: SCOTUS Strikes Down Public Employee Union Fees For Non-Members
CDR Salamander: Lies, Damn Lies, And Ship Maintenance
Da Tech Guy: Justice Kennedy Leaves With A Flourish, also, Ten One-Line Thoughts Under My Fedora
Don Surber: Behold The Chickensquawk
Dustbury: Scripps Scraps Tulsa Cluster
First Street Journal: SCOTUS And The “Muslim Ban”
The Geller Report: Macron Losing Control Over Muslim-dominated No-Go Areas, Asks Public For Help, also, GOP Rep Calls on Maxine Waters To Resign, Files Censure Motion
Hogewash: Gilmore v. Jones, et al News, More News, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: To Quote Joe Biden, This Is A BFD
Legal Insurrection: Trump Gets To Fill Another SCOTUS Seat As Justice Kennedy Retires, also, Trump Voters Now Being Targeted By Media Liberals
PanAm Post: The UN Exposes Maduro’s Atrocities In A Devastating Report
Power Line: Unhinged, also, A Strike For Freedom In Janus Case
Shark Tank: Democrats Split On Abolishing ICE
Shot In The Dark: This Is Today’s DFL
STUMP: Geeking Out – Public Pension Mortality Assumptions
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Communism And You
The Political Hat: The Privilege Of Paying For Your Own Indoctrination
This Ain’t Hell: Manning Fails In Senate Bid, also, Reality Winner Changes Plea
Victory Girls: Mueller Russia Probe Looks For Fall Conclusions
Volokh Conspiracy: The Limited Effects Of The Janus Decision
Weasel Zippers: “Unhinged” – RNC Releases Ad Slamming The Loony Left, also, Chris Matthews Has Meltdown When Asked How Democrats Can Fight Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee
Megan McArdle: Right-Sizing The Twitter Mob
Mark Steyn: The Offset Jet Set

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The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | June 27, 2018 | Comments Off on The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved

“Youth to End Sexual Violence is one example of how youth-led organizations around the world are standing together in solidarity — demanding a seat at the discussion table for youth survivors, activists, and leaders. It’s young people like us who are providing the most inclusive leadership.”
— Joel Davis, Huffington Post, Dec. 5, 2014

The cost of attending Columbia University is $70,826 a year, including room and board. Joel Davis was not only attending this prestigious Ivy League institution, but also studied classical piano at the Julliard School and had spent a year at England’s elite Oxford University.

Did I mention that Joel Davis is homosexual? Openly and proudly so, attending the February 2017 gala of the pro-gay Human Rights Campaign, and posting selfies kissing his boyfriend, Jonathan Fitzgerald.

Davis was an activist, co-founder of Youth to End Sexual Violence, and now, it would appear, young Mr. Davis is on his way to federal prison:

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the arrest of JOEL DAVIS on charges of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, and possession, receipt, and distribution of child pornography. DAVIS was arrested today and will be presented today in Manhattan federal court before the Honorable Kevin N. Fox.
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Joel Davis started an organization devoted to stopping sexual violence, while allegedly engaged in the duplicitous behavior of sharing explicit images of infants engaged in sexual activity. Davis also allegedly solicited an undercover officer — whom he thought to be a willing participant — to send sexually explicit videos of his nine-year-old daughter, and even to set up a sexual encounter between himself and a two-year-old. The conduct alleged against Joel Davis is as unfathomable as it is sickening, and as this case demonstrates, law enforcement will keep its watchful eye on the darkest corners of the internet to bring predators to justice.”
FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said: “Having started an organization that pushed for the end of sexual violence, Davis displayed the highest degree of hypocrisy by his alleged attempts to sexually exploit multiple minors. As if this wasn’t repulsive enough, Davis allegedly possessed and distributed utterly explicit images of innocent infants and toddlers being sexually abused by adults. Crimes against children such as those alleged are taken very seriously by the FBI, and we continue to work tirelessly to investigate those who place the most helpless members of the American public at risk.”
According to the allegations in the Complaint sworn out today in Manhattan federal court and statements made during court proceedings:
Over the course of several weeks in June 2018, DAVIS, who started an organization devoted to ending sexual violence, exchanged text messages with law enforcement officers operating in an undercover capacity. During the course of these conversations, DAVIS told the undercover officers that he was sexually interested in children of all ages. DAVIS sent the undercover officers sexually explicit photographs of infants and toddlers, including photographs in which the infants and toddlers were engaged in sexual activity with adults. During the course of text conversations with one of the undercover officers, DAVIS described explicit sexual activity that he intended to engage in with the purported nine-year-old daughter of the undercover officer and with the purported two-year-old daughter of the undercover officer’s girlfriend. DAVIS also repeatedly asked that undercover officer to take naked and sexually explicit pictures and videos of his purported daughter and his purported girlfriend’s toddler daughter and to send the pictures and videos to DAVIS.

Why would a gay man want to have sex with a little girl? The logic of this is mysterious, unless you remember that Joel Davis — in addition to (allegedly) possessing a massive stash of baby porn — was a student at prestigious Columbia University, which recruits practitioners and advocates of every kind of despicable perversion.

That’s what diversity means in the Ivy League. Baby-rapers are always welcome at Columbia, if they’ve got high SAT scores and rich parents.

So if your kid got turned down by Columbia or Harvard (or didn’t bother applying to any of those schools, because there’s no way you could afford it) you should congratulate yourself on your good fortune. What an odious mark of shame it is in the 21st century to attend a so-called “elite” university, where all the students now are degenerate freaks.

Category: Crime, The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

Heterosexual White Male Democrat Loses Primary to Socialist Puerto Rican Woman

Posted on | June 27, 2018 | Comments Off on Heterosexual White Male Democrat Loses Primary to Socialist Puerto Rican Woman

Guys like Joe Crowley have no future as Democrats.

The legacy of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat is that heterosexual white male Democrats are rapidly becoming an endangered species:

Rep. Joe Crowley, one of the top Democrats in the House of Representatives, lost his New York primary in a shocking upset on Tuesday night to community organizer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Crowley, having fundraised nearly $3 million for the race in New York’s 14th District, fell easily to a first-time candidate with a viral introduction video, a Democratic Socialists of America membership card, and a proudly leftist agenda. She ran on Medicare-for-all, a federal jobs guarantee, and getting tough on Wall Street. The race was called just before 10 pm for Ocasio-Cortez. . . .
Crowley, who has been in Congress since 1999, is the No. 4 Democrat in the House and was widely viewed as an eventual successor to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Though he was a stalwart progressive on nearly every issue, he also had close ties to Wall Street. This made him a formidable fundraiser, something that Ocasio-Cortez turned against Crowley in the primary. She eventually fundraised about $600,000 through small-dollar donors.

Crowley outspent his primary opponent 5-to-1, but he’s a heterosexual white male and she’s a Puerto Rican woman who labeled him a symbol of the “political patriarchy.” Having made identity politics the basis of their last three presidential campaigns — the first black president, then the first female (almost) president — Democrats have been taken over by “intersectionality” and candidates spewing the kind of jargon you used to have to take a college Gender Studies class to learn.