Meghan McCain is tough. Very tough. Also, has she mentioned that she has perspective? Lots of perspective. She knows how much privilege she has, and she understands that media is a tough environment, and she gets that lots of people have it worse than her, so no, you don’t need to point any of that out.

It’s just, you see, what you have to understand here is that the particular sleights and indignities she’s suffered at the hands of her father’s political consultants and her cohosts on The View and the students at Reed College who were rude to her during a Q&A on their campus and the Samantha Bee writer who went viral being dismissive to her on Twitter really are just that bad. Do you get it now?

I listened to Meghan McCain’s new book, Bad Republican, on a recent road trip. The last two paragraphs give you a sense of what it was like. It’s five and a half hours of nonstop aggrievement.