The NYT serves only one master, and it is not journalism, it is access to power, and greed.
@LiberalLibrarian: Weisman isn't at all wrong. He's accurately stating the way both are seeing it. The Republicans ARE doing their opera exactly that way. It's their ongoing narrative to get the flyover country, the non-major-metro people angry at the "coastal elites". It's not about anything real. It's simply politics and about power, about 2024.
@LiberalLibrarian Hoo Boy… where do we begin?
Meanwhile, The Times (UK) had a glowing feature on a teacher fired from Eton because he showed his students a video on how to be a "chivalrous" man, and how him being fired is a symptom of how schools are driving young boys to Andrew Tate.