1. Yglesias is exactly right. Among the democracies America has a very narrow political spectrum & elite media is ever narrower. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/978715282662404096 …
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2. It's telling that elite media tries to answer critique of lack of diversity by promoting Never Trump conservatives, which is a kind of Faux-diversity since most NT conservatives falls within elite consensus.
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3. I value some of the Never Trump crowd because they have valuable hard-won insights into movement conservatism (
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4. This is a fair point. "Never Trump" is broad category & runs from people well to the right of Trump (Williamson) to those much closer to center (Frum/Brooks).https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/978719922812542977 …
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5. But Williamson aside, the Never Trump people who get promoted tend to be on the more moderate end of things & in general opposing Trump is a kind of elite litmus test, a way of proving respectability.
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6. I think way out of faux-diversity is to remove Trump as litmus test & look to writers from outside elite consensus: paleo-cons, theocrats, anarchists, socialists, radical feminists etc. Some more thoughts here:https://newrepublic.com/article/147240/myth-times-intellectual-diversity …
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7. It's true that there are liberals & leftists who can't abide any right-of-center writer. But I know many liberals & leftists that admire Douthat, Caldwell, Applebaum, Frum, Andrew Coyne, Cathy Young, etc. https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/978732163062431746 …
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pretty much every left take on this, mine included, cites Douthat as the ur-example of the kind of conservative liberal publishers say they want
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The elite is all about tone, Matt. That's why you and I will never get far.
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Matt wears JNCO jeans
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