Geoffrey MillerVerified account

I take the point about the name (laughed at the line about the baby boomer buying the Harley). The name's not what I would have picked, but also: I'm reporting on the thing. As for the bigger issue Jonah raises: What makes this thing new or different or worthy of a NYT piece?

After all, Jonah rightly points out, we've seen many groups (neocons) mugged by reality when they've run up against the orthodoxy of their own side. But while the neocons became cons, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying and others are staying on the left.

What makes this group different--and interesting, in my view-is that they aren't just people mugged by the left and moving right. It's a bunch of people who disagree on almost every issue and yet are making common cause.