Ross DouthatVerified account

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New York Times columnist, National Review film critic, author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press, 2012).

Washington DC
Joined April 2012

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  1. My Sunday column: A Playboy for President:

  2. The rest came from Steve Moore + Art Laffer arguing in front of Trump, a one-act Ionesco play about GOP decadence:

  3. The closest thing to an original idea in the Trump tax plan really did come from Ivanka:

  4. Like Carson campaign, the Trump campaign is turning into a scam that exists to build lists to sell after loss.

  5. Yes, but Perot was anti-trade, anti-interventionism, and anti-immigration. Totally different than Trump.

  6. Also I'd be interested to hear some elaboration on the "who doesn't" here:

  7. Perot ran a very successful indy campaign selling his business experience. Trump is a more famous Successful Billionaire (TM) than Perot.

  8. I mean, he's been built up by an array of media outlet as a successful business man and dealmaker for decades.

  9. Oh Trump supporters work in construction, lucky ducks. Obviously that’s insulated from downturns.

  10. 17. And the idea that he couldn't have legit economic *and* cultural anxieties because he earns above the median ... is absurd. /Finis.

  11. 16. I doubt he's voting for Trump. It's a family of Democrats. (I'm the black sheep.) But he's smack in the Trump demographic.

  12. 15. He also was a drug addict in his 20s. Likewise his siblings. One went to jail briefly. They've struggled in all kinds of ways.

  13. 14. He does well. Very well. It's an industry that rewards skills and family knowledge/connections. He has both.

  14. 13. Tim is my age. He didn't go to college. He's in a blue-collar industry in New England.

  15. 12. Wait, I'm not done. Let me tell you a story about a relative of mine. We'll call him Tim.

  16. 11. ... is pretty much the grossest thing that liberal Twitter has produced recently.

  17. 10. But this whole "LOL economic anxiety you make $47,000 a year what are you complaining about you racist" thing ...

  18. 9. They should be less bigoted. They should have had more kids and sent them to church and turned off the TV and moved etc.

  19. 8. They can also be bigoted, as liberals say. They can also be partially responsible for state of their communities, per , others.

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