This exchange between former Trump spokesmodel turned Bulwark employee, Sarah Matthews, and Tim Miller made me check my blogroll and archives to make sure the entire history of the Liberal blogosphere/ podcast universe really existed. Or had I hit my head on a low-slung door casing in 1998 and just dreamed it all up.
Matthews: Don't get me wrong like of course there's a little part of me that thinks internally of course it feels good to be right but like I didn't want to be right about all of this.
Tim Miller: I did and that's one way that we're different. And I don't want to be immodest or anything, but it does feel like as I survey the news that we're going to go to this morning, like that the most extreme cringe version of Never Trumpism uh seems like it was it was correct. Like, whatever person you have in your mind, you're like, "This person like hates Trump so much that some of their takes are even a little bit like, you know, make you wince a little bit because they've gone so far around the bend." Like that person, whoever that person is in your mind, was like way more right than any anybody who tried to say like, "Let's call it balls and strikes." Like, let's see, you know, he's he had some good points on this or that.
Matthews: And now obviously like you know five years of being the on the anti-Trump side and yeah feels feels good to know that we were right.
Sure she did all the things and enjoyed all the perks and told all the lies and backed all the madness, but she reassures Tim, in her hip-hop heart (tm New York Times Pitchbot) she was never really down to clown. She was never really bought in to all the MAGA stuff. Deep down she knew things weren't right.
(So lemme understand. Back then, when she worked for Donald Trump, on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour basis she was just lying about what she truly believed. And doing it so expertly that no one could tell that she never believed the things that were coming out of her mouth.
But now she's telling the unvarnished truth? And you can trust that because...? C'mon people. It's like no one has ever seen Double Indemnity. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. The File on Thelma Jordon. Or No Man of Her Own, )
Well none of those questions were on the table. Instead Tim did the podcast equivalent of chucking her under the chin and telling her, it's OK kiddo. As the official brand-ambassador for the "pro-democracy coalition", I can assure you, all is forgiven. You're on The Bulwark payroll now, and we absolve everybody.
Everybody?
Well --- not everybody. There are two groups whose transgressions are so grievous that they can never be excused.
The first group is one guy. Tucker Carlson. Who has always been lying, skeevy con man who'll say anything to advance his personal and political fortunes. All his "apology" amounts to is another MAGA rat scurrying down the-rat line of a sinking ship. Never trust this guy.
The second group are... Liberals. Especially Liberal bloggers and podcasters who had the poor taste to have been. inconveniently, 100% right about the Right since long before there was ever such a thing as The Bulwark or a Never Trumper. Since long before Trump was even a thing.
If the Bulwark crew had it within their power to wish all of us with long memories and detailed files ...
... all into the cornfield, they'd do it before close of business.
But since that is beyond their abilities, they settle for pretending we never existed, except as straw men whose imaginary follies prompt endless eye-rolling from the savvy set.
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