Keep Your Political Paws Off Dogs
It was an Elizabeth Warren video that finally snapped me. In the 31-second clip, the Democratic presidential candidate runs down an Iowa street, arms outstretched, toward a towering inflatable version of her pet golden retriever. Her supporters chant the megalith’s name: “Big! Structural! Bailey!” The whole video has the exact emotional tenor of a hangover dream.
No, I thought. This dog is entirely too large.
It’s not just Warren’s campaign. Like a 40-foot inflatable, dogs are looming large over our news landscape. America has entered a political moment of Too Much Dog.