Posted on 07/22/2022 5:38:37 PM PDT by NoLibZone
The New York Times published a series of op-eds by its opinion columnists Thursday that began with the phrase "I Was Wrong About." As part of the collection, Bret Stephens admitted he was wrong to label Trump supporters "appalling."
Stephens said, "The worst line I ever wrote as a pundit" was the first he ever wrote about Trump: "If by now you don’t find Donald Trump appalling, you’re appalling."
"This opening salvo, from August 2015, was the first in what would become dozens of columns denouncing Trump as a unique threat to American life, democratic ideals and the world itself," he continued.
Stephens said he "regret[s] almost nothing of what I said about the man and his close minions" but that "the broad swipe at his voters caricatured them and blinkered me."
"It also probably did more to help than hinder Trump’s candidacy. Telling voters they are moral ignoramuses is a bad way of getting them to change their minds," he continued. "What were they seeing that I wasn’t?" he pondered.
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They were the children raised with ‘timeout’’ punishment instead of getting their butt smacked.
“He didn’t win, did he.”
Little late for a mia culpa
He was doing good until this. He still doesn’t get it
Despite this revelation, Stephens argued that he would not be “morally” wrong to “lambaste Trump’s current supporters, the ones who want him back in the White House despite his refusal to accept his electoral defeat and the historic outrage of Jan. 6.”
The guy is a flaming @sshole who is desperate to regain his credibility. Too late. I won’t read anything he writes again — even at gunpoint.
Good post! No one should trust the “Expert Class” one iota. They have no idea what is best for us what’s done is done.
Most of RINOs are doing a full court press to get out the Trump vote for the midterms. Lizard Cheney is obviously doing her own thing.
I’m sure there is some nuance in all this but the left in general believes gaining power justifies any means necessary. Bearing false witness is one of the lesser sins they employ.
Bret is a neocon’s neocon.
“He was doing good until this. He still doesn’t get it
Despite this revelation, Stephens argued that he would not be “morally” wrong to “lambaste Trump’s current supporters, the ones who want him back in the White House despite his refusal to accept his electoral defeat and the historic outrage of Jan. 6.”
Great point...they don’t understand it’s not Trump per se’ it’s anyone who we feel is actually working for us and not the deep state. We may not agree with everything he says or does but we know in the end he’s on our side. I thank him mostly for outing these RINO’s again. May take a few election cycles to get them out but i hope we never forget who was on our side.
A newsmax guest describd Brett Stephen’s remarks as these elites taking a sip of water to clear their throats before they go back to their lib/commie type chardonny. No kudos to the creep for this.
I don’t click on any NTThymes link, it is all sanctimonious sap, and I have much better things to do.
NY Times “won” a Pulitzer Prize for their Russia-hoax reporting.
Will they give it back? Will Pulitzer correct this error?
NO.
This was one of 8 articles by Times columnists about things they got wrong. The paper made him come up with something to write.
Might make it palatable
Programmed “mea culpa” so people think the left has “seen the light”. Fake. They are bald faced communist liars
These leftists need to be destroyed. In all and any legal way. No quarter.
The NY Times has a long history of bullshit lies bias reporting and covering up facts.
“What were they seeing that I wasn’t?” he pondered.
Stephens wasn’t seeing the facts on the ground. He was too busy “seeing the facts” provided by the Trump-haters in their talking points. But, this is no great surprise. In my view, the NYT and all of its esteemed “journalists” have been water-carriers for the elite for decades. The little people are simply there to be told what to do and what to think, as soon as they have finished cleaning the pools, collecting the trash and watching the EV’s roll off the assembly lines.
Piss off Stephens.
Biden’s your boy. You stuck him with us, suck it up.
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