Politics & Power Quote by Ann Coulter

Coulter’s Ouija-board jab is built to do two jobs at once: mock The New York Times as predictable, and cast that predictability as almost supernatural - not reasoned judgment, but ritual. The Ouija image is doing heavy lifting. It frames the editorial page as a parlor trick where the “answers” glide into place regardless of evidence, implying the institution isn’t deliberating so much as channeling an ideology. That’s a familiar Coulter move: take an elite brand, strip it of seriousness, then sell the audience the relief of not having to argue with it.

The triad - higher taxes, speech restrictions, gun control - is also strategic compression. It’s not an exhaustive list of liberal policy; it’s a curated set of conservative hot buttons, chosen for their emotional charge. Taxes triggers resentment about coercion, “restrictions on political speech” hints at censorship and rigged elections, gun control signals vulnerability and distrust of the state. Put together, it sketches a single villain: a governing class that wants your money, your voice, and your means of self-defense. The point isn’t nuance; it’s alignment.

Context matters: Coulter’s persona is polemical journalism that borrows stand-up timing. She’s not trying to persuade the Times; she’s trying to consolidate an in-group that experiences mainstream media as a monoculture. The subtext is less “the Times is wrong” than “the Times is boringly, institutionally incapable of being right on its own terms.” The joke is a shortcut to delegitimization - and, for her audience, a permission slip to stop treating the paper as an authority.