Matthew Dowd, MSNBC, and the Global Theater of American Self-Cancellation
Last week, while the rest of the planet was busy arguing about Chinese weather balloons, Russian ammunition math, and whether Germany can survive another winter without becoming a giant popsicle, the United States decided to remind us that its most valuable export is still high-caliber melodrama. Matthew Dowd—ABC’s former chief strategist turned MSNBC’s centrist whisperer—was…