The New Yorker magazine recently did a hit piece on Senator Diane Feinstein, Democrat of California. Other California media types are after her too. The rumor mill is going full tilt against her, as fellow Democrats stab her in the front. The supposed reason is age. This from a party that just elected a clearly senile man to the White House. And isn’t “ageism” one of the many Democrat victim hustles? Yup.

But this has nothing to do with age. Democrats want her scalp because she was fair to Amy Coney Barrett and embraced Lindsey Graham after the hearing. That is the only reason this is happening. Because she acted like an adult.

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FNC: “Sen. Dianne Feinstein defended herself Friday against questions about mental decline — but wouldn’t commit to finishing her term. ‘If it changes, I’ll let you know,’ Feinstein, 87, told a reporter at the Capitol. ‘I work hard. I have good staff. I think I am productive. And I represent the people of California as well as I possibly can.’ The Democrat would next be up for reelection in 2024.”

The Jane Mayer written hatchet piece in the New Yorker said Feinstein’s cognitive decline has been “evident for several years.” The New Yorker that Feinstein has been “seriously struggling” and that her short-term memory “has grown so poor that she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they have.” How interesting. “Evident for several years”, but the Left is just getting around to reporting on it now. But why, if it was so “evident”?

“The staff is in such a bad position,” one Democrat former Senate aide told Mayer. “They have to defend her and make her seem normal.” Another Democratic aide told Mayer that Feinstein is “an incredibly effective human being, but there’s definitely been deterioration in the last year. She’s in a very different mode now.” Ah, the damming her with praise ploy before the punch. So transparent.

A racist columnist in the L A. Times, Kluxer that she is, wants Feinstein to resign because she is not the right skin color. Erika Smith: “Representation does matter, and the more I listen to black and latin leaders demand it on behalf of a state that is becoming more diverse every year, the less I understand why our senior senator is still in office, blocking progress. At 87 years old, Feinstein is the oldest member of the U.S. Senate, a member of the Silent Generation in a state dominated by people under 40. She is a wealthy woman in a state overrun with poverty, and the homelessness that too often accompanies it.”

 

The columnist went on, “Given all of this, it would make perfect sense for Feinstein to be selfless and retire early with California’s gratitude for a distinguished career. Now is absolutely the time to be an ally to communities of color and let another younger lawmaker represent the evolving values of this state. For to adequately address the many long-standing, race-based disparities in everything from healthcare to housing, California needs a black senator and a latin senator.” That’s the kind of base and ignorant racism that California calls thought. No wonder people are leaving in droves.