Hate-filled backlash is making it harder to want to run for office. And that's the point.

Good afternoon, Alaska.

In this edition: Woof.

Who’d run for office with a public like this?

The Anchorage Assembly is, as I’m writing this, settling in for what looks to be several days of petulant and hate-filled testimony from a carefully cultivated base who can most charitably be described as anti-maskers. At the end of the agenda is the assembly’s p…