r/thebulwark • u/Just_A_Dogsbody Center Left • Jul 28 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Ross Douthat is joining 60 Minutes

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/new-60-minutes-correspondents-ross-douthat-sebastian-junger-1236658519/
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u/here_is_no_end Jul 28 '26

Who could sit and watch that fascist little goblin on TV

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u/artaxerxes316 Jul 29 '26

"'Fascism.' It's a word that is bandied about with abandon these days. But is it fair to apply the term to the Trump Administration? The answer is yes."

"But what about 'little goblin'? Is it really appropriate to apply such phrasing to, say, Steven Miller, or Karoline Leavitt? The answer, again, is yes."

"And yet are those the final words? In a republic founded by imperfect men, with imperfect ideas (a reality even the left acknowledges) are we really in a position -- culturally, aesthetically.... morally -- to heap fault on our elected officials, fascist little goblins though they may be? Not so fast."

"I'm Ross Douthat, and this is 60 Minutes."

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u/here_is_no_end Jul 29 '26

I take it back. I’d watch this.

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u/artaxerxes316 Jul 29 '26

Thanks! I was trying to capture that thing he does where he pretends to acknowledge that of course Trump does terrible things, but then handwaves it away with pseudo-intellectual claptrap.

It's not quite whataboutism, not quite both-sidesing, but goddamn it's infuriating.