1. Okay, cat is out of bag: @brianbeutler has left the venerable New Republic to join the upstarts at Crooked Media: https://crooked.com/article/crooked-media-announces-new-site-pod-store-and-network-of-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/ …
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2. As always, this is bittersweet news. Brian will do great things at his new gig, but he'll be sorely missed at TNR
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3. Aside from being an excellent colleague, Brian has for me been one of the essential guides to the turbulent politics of last few years
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4. One thing that Brian taught me is to keep eye on big picture: GOP extremism was over-riding fact of American politics.
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5. And corollary of asymmetrical polarization is inability of press to cover the new reality (as with email coverage).
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7. Brian's TNR pieces are extremely prescient (i.e. his critique of press' coverage of Clinton's email scandal). The first draft of history
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