I just listened to your ‘The Dispatch and The Bulwark Walk Into a Bar…’ podcast with Jamie Weinstein. Nicely done.
I don’t believe you ever need to apologize to The Dispatch crowd for ‘snark’, considering their level of ‘smug’. It’s a level of smug that compares with one of my favorite South Park episodes, Smug Alert (S10 E2).
I just listened to your ‘The Dispatch and The Bulwark Walk Into a Bar…’ podcast with Jamie Weinstein. Nicely done.
I don’t believe you ever need to apologize to The Dispatch crowd for ‘snark’, considering their level of ‘smug’. It’s a level of smug that compares with one of my favorite South Park episodes, Smug Alert (S10 E2).
Apparently, The Dispatch’s view is everything will be fine and dandy with the Republican Party, whether Trump wins or loses in 2024. It’s kind of like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Now I have to go listen to this. When I found Substack I had two choices, The Dispatch or The Bulwark. After a few months, I committed to The Bulwark. That choice is vindicated daily.
I had been thinking that the anti-antis were memoryholing J6 for reasons of cognitive dissonance, but have come to think of it as more of a cynical and deliberate downplaying so they can maintain their need to see themselves as 'too cool to care.' And I've read JVL's thoughts on Ross D being a 'shy Trumper' but wonder if it's more a question of his wanting to be cool enough to be one of this crowd.
Tim,
I just listened to your ‘The Dispatch and The Bulwark Walk Into a Bar…’ podcast with Jamie Weinstein. Nicely done.
I don’t believe you ever need to apologize to The Dispatch crowd for ‘snark’, considering their level of ‘smug’. It’s a level of smug that compares with one of my favorite South Park episodes, Smug Alert (S10 E2).
Apparently, The Dispatch’s view is everything will be fine and dandy with the Republican Party, whether Trump wins or loses in 2024. It’s kind of like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Now I have to go listen to this. When I found Substack I had two choices, The Dispatch or The Bulwark. After a few months, I committed to The Bulwark. That choice is vindicated daily.
I had been thinking that the anti-antis were memoryholing J6 for reasons of cognitive dissonance, but have come to think of it as more of a cynical and deliberate downplaying so they can maintain their need to see themselves as 'too cool to care.' And I've read JVL's thoughts on Ross D being a 'shy Trumper' but wonder if it's more a question of his wanting to be cool enough to be one of this crowd.