Stupid Shit Andrew Sullivan Says: The Adventure Continues

One year ago, America's most prominent White, gay, Catholic, Tory, Conservative, Libertarian phrenologist added to the long list of things he has quit by announcing that he was quitting New York Magazine because not enough people would sit at his table in the company cafeteria.  From The Guardian:

Anti-Trump British journalist quits New York Magazine in 'woke' row

Conservative columnist claims staff no longer want to associate with him because of his attacks on critical theory

Or maybe it was a decision mutually decided upon.  From CNN:

Longtime columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan resigns from New York magazine

Columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan is leaving New York magazine, his professional home since 2016, he announced Tuesday.

"This will be my last week at New York Magazine," Sullivan tweeted. "I'm sad because the editors I worked with there are among the finest in the country, and I am immensely grateful to them for vastly improving my work. I'm also proud of the essays and columns I wrote at NYM - some of which will be published in a collection of my writing scheduled for next year."

New York editor in chief David Haskell confirmed Sullivan's resignation in a memo to staff obtained by CNN Business.

Haskell wrote that the decision for Sullivan and the magazine to "part ways was mutual."

"Andrew and I agreed that his editorial project and the magazine's, though overlapping in many ways, were no longer the right match for each other," Haskell said...

And although his parting column read as affectionate and wistful, it didn't take more than a New York Minute for him to turn around and come after his former colleagues with both barrels, nor did it take very long for the Very, Very Right to give ol' Andy the prodigal son treatment.  

For example here, from the unbalanced mind of Rod Dreher at The American Conservative.

Defending Andrew Sullivan

And here, from the very publicly disgraced pen of Kevin Williamson who now writes for America's most respected journal of white supremacy and who sees in Sullivan a fellow victim of [checks notes] free market capitalism:

Ritual Denunciation and the Mau-Mauing of the Former Magazine Editors

And as America's most prominent White, gay, Catholic, Tory, Conservative, Libertarian phrenologist has made it increasingly clear that his late-career goal is to anoint himself as the sole and absolute asshole-arbiter of all things historical and racial, so has his prominence among the denizens of the sewer dwelling Right grown.  

Which is how, in the space of one year, Mr. Sullivan's metaphysical home has traveled 3.8 miles South/South-East from the headquarters of New Yorker Magazine to the headquarters of The New York Post, where we find him this week, with his original column from the Post issuing Dire Warnings about yadda yadda yadda being reprinted by -- surprise! -- Fox News directly under a video of Critical Race Theory hysterics from CPAC :

Andrew Sullivan: It's bigger than CRT — radical ideologies transforming US

The CRT debate is just the latest squall in a tempest brewing and building for five years or so

Brief aside: I hope in the course of your extensive reading you are not failing to notice that, in every article like this, all of American history began "five years or so" ago?

And woven between misspelled ads urging you to send money to wingnut grifters -- "CALLISTA AND NEWT GINGRICH: FIGHTING CRITICAL RACE THEORY – HERE'S WHO'S LEADING CHARGE ADN HOW YOU CAN HELP" -- and a Fox News video featuring Mike Lee warning that Race-Crazy!Libtards!Are!Coming!For!Your!Children! you will find what amounts to a full-on "Wake up white people!!" tirade against the the Left by Mr. Sullivan.

In Mr. Sullivan's telling, Donald Trump has completely disappeared from the discourse.  The racist Tea Party movement that prefigured him?  Gone.  The eight years of Republican obstruction, sedition and overtly racist shit like Birtherism that Trump rode to power? Gone.  The entire modern history of the Republican Party?  Gone.

And while, sure, some Republican stuff may be bad -- 

And, yes, some of the liberal critiques of a Fox News-hyped campaign are well taken.

-- the real Big Bad is not Fox News or the GOP:

But does that mean there isn’t a real issue here? Of course it doesn’t.

Take a big step back. Observe what has happened in our discourse since around 2015. Forget CRT for a moment and ask yourself: Is nothing going on here but Republican propaganda and guile? Can you not see that the Republicans may be acting, but they are also reacting — against something that is right in front of our noses? 

What is it? It is, I’d argue, the sudden, rapid, stunning shift in the belief system of the American elites. It has sent the whole society into a profound cultural dislocation. It is, in essence, an ongoing moral panic against the specter of "white supremacy," which is now bizarrely regarded as an accurate description of the largest, freest, most successful multiracial democracy in human history.

We all know who the real villains are don't we! 

The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead—and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.

 Oops.  Sorry.  My mistake.

That was Andrew Sullivan slagging the Left twenty years ago.

This is Andrew Sullivan slagging the Left two days ago:

We all know it’s happened. The elites, increasingly sequestered within one political party and one media monoculture, educated by colleges and private schools that have become hermetically sealed against any nonleft dissent, have had a "social justice reckoning" these past few years. And they have been ideologically transformed, with countless cascading consequences. 

Sullivan sprinkles in an obligatory slap at his former friend:

The popular breakthrough was Ta-Nehisi Coates’ essay on reparations in The Atlantic and his subsequent, gut-wrenching memoir, "Between The World And Me." He combined the worldview and vocabulary of CRT with the vivid lived experience of his own biography. He is a beautifully gifted writer, and I am not surprised he had such an emotional impact, even if, in my view, the power of his prose blinded many to the radical implications of the ideology he surrendered to.

A pinch of Reverend Wright for the old school wingnuts:

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society...

And then, for dessert, Sullivan serves up the red meat:

Religious freedom? Illegitimate bigotry. Equality? Only group equity counts now, and individuals of the wrong identity can and must be discriminated against. Color-blindness? Another word for racism. Mercy? Not for oppressors. Intent? Irrelevant. Objectivity? A racist lie. Science? A manifestation of white supremacy. Biological sex? Replaced by socially constructed gender so that women have penises and men have periods. The rule of law? Not for migrants or looters. Borders? Racist. Viewpoint diversity? A form of violence against the oppressed.

We are going through the greatest radicalization of the elites since the 1960s. This isn’t coming from the ground up. It’s being imposed ruthlessly from above, marshaled with a fusillade of constant MSM propaganda, and its victims are often the poor and the black and the brown. It nearly lost the Democrats the last election. 

How ironic and hilarious that nothing screams late-stage British imperialism louder than the sight of America's most prominent White, gay, Catholic, Tory, Conservative, Libertarian phrenologist single-mindedly using every tool at his disposal to try to invade and colonize a conversation that threatens his hardwired belief in his own aristocratic superiority.  

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