If, like me, you're incensed about Trump and his redpillionaire-powered desecration of our democracy, you'll agree that part of the blame for that ought to be laid at the feet of his enablers. One especially prominent enabler, certainly within centrist and center-right spaces, was The Free Press - ThreadSky

bernybelvedere.bsky.social • 22 days ago

If, like me, you're incensed about Trump and his redpillionaire-powered desecration of our democracy, you'll agree that part of the blame for that ought to be laid at the feet of his enablers.

One especially prominent enabler, certainly within centrist and center-right spaces, was The Free Press

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thereseheitman.bsky.social•22 days ago

Once you become the darling of the dictator, it’s hard not to lean into that. Functional medicine was claimed by Bari to be an eye opener when in fact I’ve been following alternative medicine since 1990. She claims MAHA came up with this issue but in fact they stole it to sell it back to us.

mindylouwho.bsky.social•22 days ago

Who ever could have seen a publication started by Bari Weiss would serve as an onramp to trump’s Naziism.

bernybelvedere.bsky.social•22 days ago

The FP functioned as a permission slip for centrists and center-rightists who are generally more thoughtful than the typical MAGAbrained chudlet to soften their misgivings about Trump and swallow his candidacy as a necessary cease and desist order against the left's advances.

billthepony.bsky.social•22 days ago

The last sentence "just like the left" Is a crystal clear example of how the right argues

They will simply never ever ever be critical of the conservative in their own rights.

They will only negatively compare them to a liberal.

"X conservative isn't wrong, They're just acting like a dem"

pezhedz.bsky.social•22 days ago

“MAGAbrained chudlet”
Definitely going to steal that.

bernybelvedere.bsky.social•22 days ago

The publication's criticisms of the right, despite being tepid and infrequent, were—and still are—used to project an image of “not-on-your-side” impartiality which allow it to attack the left without attracting a reputation as a committed ally of the right.

lyonsnyc.bsky.social•21 days ago

I also can't stand seeing the missing apostrophe s. It should be "The Free Press's Passage Into the Dark Side" and "Weiss's instinct" and so on. I really hate seeing the dropped s. It will always look like a typo to me (because it is; hint: ignore what the AP says about this). @theunpopulist.net

bernybelvedere.bsky.social•22 days ago

But what it’s really doing is providing a veneer of respectability to an effort that foments—or at best passively endorses—hysteria over progressive values while downplaying the country’s descent into authoritarianism.

bernybelvedere.bsky.social•22 days ago

Many outlets simply acknowledge their political tilt, but The Free Press pretends that it alone hovers safely above the distorting effects of ideology—and that makes it even more susceptible to capture.

alwaysadorecats.bsky.social•22 days ago

The Free Press and the rest of their ilk write as if having an opinion is a skill, and a skill they believe they do better than anyone else.

bernybelvedere.bsky.social•22 days ago

Take one example on a topic of recent interest: tariffs.

In a piece from a couple of weeks ago, readers were invited to “ignore the Wall Street hysteria” about Trump’s tariffs and embrace them as a necessary corrective for society.

shadowhedgie8.bsky.social•22 days ago

They just went and published VDH. Jesus wept

bernybelvedere.bsky.social•22 days ago

But not even Trump ignored the "Wall Street hysteria"! Literally the guy pushing the insane tariff agenda had to ditch them in light of the meltdown they were causing.

So the FP's readers were advised to embrace an agenda that the very figure pushing them couldn't even back. Incredible sycophancy.

poormarlowe.bsky.social•22 days ago

One quibble with "passage": isn't it clear Bari Weis has always been a straight up Nazi, and everything about FP/UAT etc was a pack of lies aimed straight for the credulity of other centrists?

poormarlowe.bsky.social•22 days ago

This is probably more or less what the rest of your thread is saying

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