As the presidential election draws near, the New York Times Opinion section has doubled down on serving as a collective therapy session for those who have experienced night sweats ever since Trump was elected four years ago.
The DC Examiner’s Becket Adams chose just one moment in time to provide some examples:
nyt opinion have a very normal and diverse one today. pic.twitter.com/Bw1XsbFrru
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 29, 2020
One middle-aged Times columnist even has experienced some “lost innocence”:
Frank Bruni is 56. He is old enough to have lived through Abscam, Iran-Contra, Waco, Clinton perjuring himself, the War on Terror, Fannie/Freddie, the VA scandal, NSA spying, unaccountable drone war, etc.
but it wasn’t until this admin that bruni “lost” a “kind of innocence”?
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 29, 2020
imagine being a grown adult with knowledge of/experience living through Kennedy and civil rights assassinations, Vietnam, RICHARD NIXON, '68 DNC, Abscam, Waco, fed-assisted financial crisis, drone wars, NSA, etc. and *just now* you're like, “i have lost my political innocence."
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 30, 2020
have to imagine the 1619 berserkers at the NYT are like “what do you mean America JUST NOW lost its innocence and generosity?!"
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 30, 2020
Oh my. And just imagine what the Times’ pages will look like if Trump wins re-election.
oh, God. the entire NYT opinion section is doing a bit. pic.twitter.com/L6HoSb50VG
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 30, 2020
nyt news staff probably preparing another lifeboat to cast another opinion editor out to sea.
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 30, 2020
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i know we use the word privilege a lot, but it really is the height of privilege to know what we know about U.S. history and assert that the past four years have been the darkest and most damaging. like children who’ve been told “no” for the first time.
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 30, 2020
that’s the thing about trump’s 2016 victory. it wasn’t just a political win. it was a repudiation of an entire worldview. these people have been trying ever since to cope however they can. these ahistorical lamentations are just the latest in a running four-year therapy session.
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 30, 2020
If you wring the Times’ Opinion section in your hands, tears will actually fall to the ground.
Pretty sure Clinton's sexcapades made a whole bunch of people lose "a kind of innocence".
— Sheri (@captnwentworth) October 29, 2020
I was gonna say, if you’re going to cite a moment where innocence was lost, it was 9/11. Not 4 years of Trump… that’s just… ?
— Robert B (@PatriotBeez) October 29, 2020
This is why they call it NYT Opinion instead of NYT Opinions. https://t.co/v0TKrFxb5E
— Fuzzy Chimp (@fuzzychimpcom) October 30, 2020