What you gotta understand about a guy like Douthat is that no conservatives read him. His role in the system is either to come up with arguments for conservative power that liberals like or (when that's not possible) sow doubt and division in the elite liberals who read the NYT
I was going to inquire what Ross did now but then realized the skyline would reveal all. Sure enough.
Tbogg nailed Douthat with the Chunky Reese Witherspoon takedown years ago. People should still be bringing this up every time Douthat writes anything
"The only way to win is not to play." War Games taught me so much at such a tender age...
I don't want to even make it sound like a conspiracy or something, theres a real audience among liberals for someone who will whitewash American conservativism so that it feels less alarming to libs
It's obvious he's anti-liberal. Why the fuck do liberals read that couchfucker? He's the enemy, not some kind of neutral, or even good-faith, analyst.
I feel like there’s probably a handful of cons that like to read him because they imagine liberals being upset at the tortured logic being used to launder pro-Trump content to them, but then again most of those types probably just watch Daily Wire instead
does anyone actually read the “the redistribution of sex and women’s bodies is good, actually” guy
You can say this for NYT generally.