People with big microphones often don’t have as much influence as they believe they do.

If I could suggest a movie that most reminds me of Tucker Carlson and his pals, it would be "This Is Spinal Tap." We join the band’s world when they are clearly in decline. They recall the days of greater popularity and bigger venues. They try to convince themselves and others that nothing has changed: they are still the popular group that they supposedly were before we ever met them through the lens of the late Rob Reiner. That they still have loud microphones and big speakers on their end doesn’t translate into overwhelming crowds of adoring fans on the other.

George Conway, in his hatred of Donald Trump, spent a great deal of time either putting his thoughts out on social media or being interviewed by the lefty news. He salivated at the prospect of the president being prosecuted, apparently feeling slighted that President Trump was far better to his wife than he was to her now ex. If we were to try to gauge how much Conway was on the money by the frequency of his appearances and the vitriol of his claims, then we would have expected him to be super-popular. And apparently, he came to the same conclusion. He figured that his anti-Trump CV and his disassociation with the president’s former campaign manager would give him some serious street cred with the Democrats. Well, the Democratic primaries came and went, and Herr Conway came in 5th in the 12th District race. He apparently was ahead of a dead hobo, and his 5,400 voters were fewer than the average number of riders that would normally be on a New York subway during rush hour.

While Conway can now return full-time to trashing Donald Trump, his emphatic loss might actually be what Barack Obama liked to describe: a teachable moment. The people who are most anti-Trump or pseudo-pro-socialism live in bubbles throughout the United States. Because everyone around Democrats trashes Israel,........

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