Douthat is either knowingly lying or letting himself be lied to here. Rufo was a right-wing crank long before 2020, starting as an anti-homeless truther and anti-tax activist. - ThreadSky

katz.theracket.news • 2 days ago

Douthat is either knowingly lying or letting himself be lied to here. Rufo was a right-wing crank long before 2020, starting as an anti-homeless truther and anti-tax activist.

Reposted from Sherrilyn Ifill

Fascinating for me are the alleged “origin stories” of men who came from obscurity & have been allowed to dismantle structures thoughtfully created & developed over yrs to address racism. For Rufo, it was the 2 weeks of protests in 2020 in Seattle. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

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jonathanbonanno.bsky.social•2 days ago

Still have my Times sub but this piece may settle that for good

johnbrownwasright.bsky.social•2 days ago

A complete lie. He did a stupid movie called Seattle is dyimg in 2015 or somewhere and also tried to run for city council but there was a huge baclash and he then falsely claimed he got death threats and left town.

socrates80.bsky.social•2 days ago

Douthat is IMO quite a shill and apologist for the right so my bet is on the former

chickpea7.bsky.social•2 days ago

Douthat is the pope of bad-faith. If he accidentally advanced a true and valid argument, his bones would fall out, his blood would turn to acid erasing all of his DNA.

alanrichardson.bsky.social•2 days ago

It is so weird that this guy has been on this anti-woke path since forever and quite publicly and thinks he can say it all started for him in 2020

meamdal.bsky.social•2 days ago

Knowingly

jcallahanbryant.bsky.social•2 days ago

hearing that Rufo comes from a long line of Italian Communists explains everything imo. the psychological inability to deal with disorder and God-complex to strive everyday to re-order society under your personal vision is lame AF

katz.theracket.news•2 days ago

This is from the profile Ben Wallace-Wells wrote about him in 2021.

speterdavis.com•2 days ago

This guy just singularly in particular lowers my resolve. How do you fight this stupid shit? The media knows he's lying from the outset. They report all his garbage as truth because they're reserving the next scandal, that he was lying, as their next big story. They get two big stories per story.

chriswb71.bsky.social•2 days ago

So he just ignored all the studies showing poverty and scarcity and stress changes the brain? He just decided that people are irrevocably poor?

jalixe.bsky.social•2 days ago

The real origin of a right-wing crank is them being failed artists who become jealous of minorities. Hitler, Goebbels, every daily wire influencer, etc.

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•2 days ago

The right-wing reorientation directly against truth in any form really doesn't get discussed enough.

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