Take A “W”
By Mitch Berg
When I started this blog, 23 years ago this month, I had a few assumptions about politics:
- Minneapolis was as crazy as it was ever going to get
- If you told me CD8 would ever vote Republican, I’d have said you were certifiable
- Big media – from the Strib and MPR to the NYTimes and WaPo – were on a sluice-track to being Pravda, and nothing was going to change that.
I was wrong about all of them – including at least part of that third bullet: Jeff Bezos, whose Washington Post has for the past 15 years considered Jennifer Rubin “conservative”, frankly shocked me just a tad. Read the whole thing.
Am I cynical enough to wonder what the “but” is? Hell yeah. If Jennifer Rubin was “conservative”, maybe Robert Reich is “pro free market” and Fareed Zakaria is a “personal liberty” guy. Who knows?
But conservative-ish populism seems to be gaining ground in our culture -and maybe, just maybe, dragging some institutions with it.
More later in the week.
March 3rd, 2025 at 9:55 am
Robert Reich has really gone off the rails.
March 3rd, 2025 at 11:38 am
Nope. It’s just that the left has gone so far off the rails and so authoritarian that even the “democratic socialists” are resisting the communists now in control of the “Democratic” agenda.
Bezos still wants to make money, and the WaPo is actively making that difficult for him right now. I’d guess it’s them promoting a “wealth tax” that’s driven him over the edge.
March 3rd, 2025 at 11:40 am
Yes, “moderation queue” again. That’s one way this blog is like a lib: there are trigger words that can’t be said in polite company! 😉
March 3rd, 2025 at 11:41 am
Rubin’s conservatism began and ended with blind support of Israel’s right of conquest.
March 3rd, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Nerd,
Not sure why my spam tool does what it does – its inner workings have been concealed from users for years. I can’t even maintain its list.
For some reason it hides most or all of what BikeBubba posts, and I have no idea why