I’m so mad at Bret Stephens’s irresponsibility (and the TImes’s irresponsibility in printing his column this week) that I can barely see straight.
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Basically everyone wants to get back to some semblance of normal life, and Stephens is preying on that desire in order to carry water for the Republican party, whose Governors and Senators want to "reopen" their states. But we know the end result: people will die.
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Stephens either doesn't not care about the readers of the Times (including my parents who found it "very persuasive") dying, or he assumes that the thing he's advocating for won't happen, but he can use it to pressure Dems and lighten pressure on the GOP.
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So really, he's either a sociopath or totally disingenuous. Either way, like his global warming denialism, his opinions on this subject should have no place in the discourse. These are matters of fact, not opinion, and he's lying to the Times's readers.
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ALSO THIS. Stephens is claiming to be the voice of a popular position that is actually widely unpopular. https://twitter.com/nickgourevitch/status/1254048010079698944?s=21 …https://twitter.com/nickgourevitch/status/1254048010079698944 …
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