On Sunday evening, Game of Thrones season 7 premiered, it opened with Arias Stark the wrong daughter of beheaded hero Ned Stark taking revenge on the enemies of her family.

This led Nira Tandon, the president of Center for American Progress, to tweet, quote,

Aria Stark is the flag for the resistance. Who's with me? Tandon is a former policy director for President Obama.

There are two rather large problems with using Arias Stark as a banner

for resistance. First, Arias Stark is an assassin. Yes, she's a fantastic character. She's fun to watch.

She also goes around killing leaders. In fact, spoiler alert, she says midway through season

seven, she's going to kill somebody who is in a position of power. So, if the Democrats are

attempting to tamp down the violent rhetoric, they're not doing a very good job of it. Second, Democrats keep searching for fictional counterparts for their current situation. First, they cited The Handmaid's tale as a sort of apocalyptic vision of the Trump era. Now they're moving on to Game of Thrones. The only common theme seems to be that if a show is prominent, it must be a metaphor for Trump's America. But Democrats' entire problem is their failure to live in reality. They seem to believe the more they retreat to fantasy, the better off they'll be. But it was their lack of on-the-ground realism that cost them the 2016 election and their embrace of the enormous fiction of intersectionality that continues to cost them credibility. Still, Democrats search for a message. And the only message

they seem to be able to unify around is that of resistance, even though they can't even explain

what they would do. Achieved power. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

All righty, so we have a lot to get to today.

I'm talking about the media's attempt to assault Trump on a bunch of different issues.

They're moving beyond Russia now because they seem kind of annoyed that they have to keep talking.

Russia, and so now they're trying to hit Trump with all of the old platitudes.

We'll get to that.

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