Sullivan was famous for criticizing promiscuous gays until it came out he was searching Craigslist to get barnacled as an hiv positive man before prep.
The old pattern Sullivan would always go through on his blog was his first reaction to every story was always stupid and atrocious, then a bunch of his liberal readers (and staffers) would keep emailing him about it and he'd eventually go "okay fine, i guess the libs are right on this one"...
and now that he moved away from an obama-lib audience to a tech-bro substack nazi audience the voices in his ear every day are the ones saying "Trump is here to save you from the wokies" and that's the thing he gets repeatedly talked into.
I've always said you can't really grasp Andrew Sullivan without understanding he's one of those rare people who can often write readable prose but can't think their way out of a paper bag.
He's just a a dumb guy, crippled by his solipsism.
I remember he spent weeks promoting some crockpot theory that Matthew Shepherd was killed because he was a meth dealer and the only source was some crazy documentary that he was in
I stopped reading Sullivan in 2012 when he had an extended, bedwetting meltdown about Obama’s first debate with Romney. Maybe I’ve read 1-2 pieces since then, but if I did they were forgettable.
stopped reading him and blocked him when he characterized me too complaints as men being "handsy." There are 8 year olds with more intellectual curiosity and honesty.
The worst of it is that, if like me you're not content with living according to diva-obsessed bitchy-queen queer stereotypes, he's still the only generally recognized intellectually respectable alternative.
Have said before, will say again: when SHTF he's got a go-bag packed and an updated passport, so he can get the fuck back to Blighty. He can then stand for Parliament like the Tory Boy he always was
If I remember right, it was Nikole Hannah-Jones, and it was his biggest issue with the 1619 Project. Like he read the whole thing and had to jump on Twitter to be like "how dare you characterize black men having larger penises as an unfounded stereotype?"
I really hope anyone who thought Sullivan was a “rational conservative”or whatever the fuck term they were using for him is hanging their head in shame right now.
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He's just a a dumb guy, crippled by his solipsism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/29/democrats-brutal-poll-problem/
Only in America could you find a way
To make a healthy buck
Even though your takes are constantly fucked
p.s. Lovely caricature, I instantly recognized him.