Noah Rothman writes for National Review Online about an interesting observation from one of the nation’s leading legacy media outlets.

Partisans on the American Left go to the New York Times opinion page to read their own opinions restated with the utmost sneering confidence and to luxuriate in their presumed moral authority. At least, that was supposed to be the deal, but the Times has abrogated its side of the arrangement. In an unsparing video essay, the paper of record trained its fire on its most embarrassing allies. …

… In sum, the Times appears to sympathize with Democrats of all stripes who have grown vocally impatient with the party’s leaders and prominent activists alike, none of whom seem capable of meeting the measure of this moment. The video maintains that Democrats have responded to Trump’s restoration in one of three ways: to revel in the notion that Trump’s voters are suffering as a result of their choices, to gloat over their presumed prescience, or to succumb to despondency. All of it, the video package maintains, is insufficient.

The Times doesn’t articulate an alternative to these self-destructive behaviors. It does, however, note that a less self-indulgent approach to winning hearts and minds is available to Democrats if they can swallow their pride. If they can’t, “it will be too late” to court persuadable voters sooner than they think. Absent a course correction ahead of the 2026 midterms, “Democrats will have spent two years rubbing MAGA’s faces in the mud rather than extending a hand,” the Times notes, “making empty performative gestures instead of offering a coherent message, succumbing to exhaustion instead of mobilizing.” The bottom line: Resistance-style theatrics turned the American electorate away from the Democratic Party.

If there is a critique to be made of this video, it is in the way in which it adopts the very sanctimony it is criticizing in their fellow Leftists. But perhaps those are table stakes to get the targets of their criticism to suppress their instinct to avert their eyes.