This falls apart by graph 36. It would be like me saying the only authentic liberal voice is Scott Dworkin's. It's either an argument from a place of ignorance or bad faith. Pick your poison.https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/15/17113176/new-york-times-opinion-page-conservatism …
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It's not meant to be a cross section of conservatives from across the landscape. It's a business cultivating a model.
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Their readership is better educated and more interested in evidence-based arguments than, say, Breitbart's. Makes sense to serve their clients, while still challenging with multiple POVs But their claim is more expansive. And yet the ideology that won the last election is missing
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I don't think it is. Caricatured Trumpism is missing, but not conservatism.
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That's because you and I still use "conservatism" to mean conservatism. And that's who I'd rather read. But it doesn't make the Times claim to be exposing readers to the political/ideological forces that won the last election accurate.
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If you're curious, I wrote about this during the "is Jennifer Rubin conservative?" flare up.https://arcdigital.media/conservative-intellectuals-lost-control-of-conservatism-f64ad146bec2 …
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