Forward Kentucky: “Monday morning quarterbacking” the 2024 election
The pundits are at it again – and getting it wrong, again
By BERRY CRAIG
If you follow pro football like I do, you know what a “Monday morning quarterback” is.
If you’re not a fan, it’s somebody who claims to know why a game (usually played on Sunday in the pros) was lost. Usually, Monday morning quarterbacks insist — often wrongly — the game would not have been lost if it had been played their way.
In an insightful essay on LA Progressive, Los Angeles journalist Erin Aubrey Kaplan took aim at the ongoing post-election Monday morning quarterbacking by the punditocracy and by self-flagellating Democrats.