“A moment of genuine madness.” — MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Max: Thunderdome. How do I get in there?Aunty Entity: That’s easy. Pick a fight! Two important points this morning. First, like it or not, the public wants Thunderdome. The press covers Thunderdome. Thunderdome draws eyeballs in this attention economy. Again, and again and again: How many Rocky movies did Stallone make? Brian Beutler responds both to ABC’s capitulation to Trump and congressional Democrats’ preference for Rep. Gerry Connolly over progressive star AOC for top Oversight Committee post. “Democrats should imagine how Fox News would fill its airtime if this were a Democratic transition, and then speak and react as if they were creating soundbites for a big, aligned, signal-boosting media company,” Beutler writes. “Democrats should be unashamed to fight [Trump]. In this conservative-dominated media environment? Attract eyeballs, for God’s sake! Pick a fight! (emphasis mine): Instead, the Democratic leadership has organized against handing the top seat on the House oversight committee to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in the hope of installing Gerry Connolly, a 74-year old cancer patient, to the position. Connolly might not be a bad option in normal times. But over the next two years, Democrats should want an energetic, hungry figure in that role; the leaders prefer a committeeman they can control. If AOC were to become the committee chair in 2026, she would conduct freewheeling oversight; Connolly will heed the leadership and its stubborn aversion to conflict. Donald Trump gives the people Thunderdome. But Democrats, with their “stubborn aversion to conflict,” won’t pick a fight or…