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Blair Reeves's avatar

The only thing I'd add to this terrific column is how, by contrast, untethered the Right generally has become from any "take accountability" of its own. Even by the standards of the 2000s, or certainly of the 90s/80s, today's MAGA-fied Right really has descended further into nihilism, nonsense and inconsistency. So while the educated liberal set (overrepresented in subscribers here) tend to bemoan the excesses of the Left, this is partly simply because absolutely no one expects the Right to meet the same standards, because it sets none for itself. We are having this (healthy) conversation at all. The other guys do not.

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Seth Weissman's avatar

As someone who generally agrees with the left on issues from climate change to race to inequality and health care, and as someone who is also on the receiving end of a disproportionate amount of the new left’s venom and hate (as a Jew), I find what is going on quite disturbing.

This all brings to mind something a rabbi /PhD and mentor of mine (may he rest on peace) once sadly said to me a few weeks before he took part as an outside reader on my PhD defense, “his sadness was that he couldn’t pray with the people he spoke with, and he couldn’t talk with the people he prayed with.” His comment was a reference to his being personally Orthodox Jewish, which was incompatible with many of his academic ideas and personal liberal values. This is how I feel today.

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