That was the first big mayoral election after I had decamped to Westchester, so I was following along and dreaming of a Mayor Wiley. I was so disappointed after the primary when I had dinner with a bunch of my city friends and found out that only a few of them had even voted. 😩
How in the hell does that goofball even have a writing job? I have a bunch of wicked smart friends who have sense and can write their way out of a paper bag. Why don't they give one of my friends this job? Jeeeee-sus Ch-r-ist.
That's what gets me- some of these writers have similarly terrible opinions but they still have facility with the written word. People like Chait or even Andrew Sullivan in the day are terrible but they can turn a phrase. MattY's prose matches the quality of his opinions, at best. Fractally crap.
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but other than that, what good has he done?