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 (
@RadioFreeTom,@davidfrum) but that's different than the intellectual diversity argument.1 reply 6 retweets 79 likesShow this thread -
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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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My problem with the Times is that their conservative voices are boring, predictable, and not very sharp, Brooks and Stephens most particularly. In addition to the names in your piece, how about Daniel Larison or Tyler Cowan?
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I'm a huge fan of Larison, although i don't really think he even counts as a conservative anymore.
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