Of course, it’s Ezra Klein who is the very modern model of cognitive dissonance.

He suggests that the Democratic establishment, of which the DNC is a part, tried to determine the outcome, and that somehow this is not an attempt to “rig” the primaries, because ……… Sparkle ponies.

It’s kind of like how he suggests that the DNC debate schedule, which foreclosed meaningful exposure to candidates not named “Clinton”, and the rules prohibiting other debates, weren’t an attempt to fix things because, “Debates are arguably her best medium,” despite the fact that Sanders more than held his own, and O’Malley excelled, while he lasted.

The concluding paragraph of the article summarizes this incoherent world salad:

The 2016 Democratic primary wasn’t rigged by the DNC, and it certainly wasn’t rigged against Sanders. But Democratic elites did try to make Clinton’s nomination as inevitable, as preordained, as possible. And the party is still managing the resentment that engendered in voters. “Once somebody doesn’t trust you,” sighs Buckley, the New Hampshire Democratic chair, “it’s very hard to get that trust back.”

Jeebus.  I wish that there were a cure for Michael Kinsley Disease. (Mindless contrarianism)