Christmas Eve is not an ideal time for curmudgeonliness, but every Advent season needs a villain, and I can Grinch it with the best of them when the moment demands.
I come not to denounce Christmas and all the Hoos in Hooville, but rather for rhetorical inflation. It has been a lot more than transitory of late.
Chris Stirewalt is a contributing writer for The Dispatch, the politics editor for The Hill and NewsNation, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, co-host of the Ink Stained Wretches podcast, and author of Broken News, a book on media and politics.
