In “One Job Is Enough. Sell the Hotel,” the New York Times Editorial Board gives direct instructions to Donald Trump. Haven’t we just seen about a year of the Times writing about how Trump and his supporters wouldn’t listen to their intellectual superiors (e.g., the Editorial Board of the NYT) and switch to supporting Hillary instead? Now that he has prevailed against all predictions (including my own!), why would Trump be waking up every morning and saying “Let me just check the NYT to see if my intellectual superiors have any agenda items for me today”?
[Separately, why is divesting just this one hotel good enough? The federal government does business in Chicago, New York, and other cities where there are Trump hotels. If Trump were so motivated he could enrich himself simply by scheduling a talk to a high school in Chicago. The entourage of Secret Service and sycophants that follows the President would tie up 500 or 1000 hotel rooms in the city. Even if none of these were booked in the Trump Hotel Chicago, that hotel would be able to charge higher rates for the night(s) that President Trump was in town.]
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Because that feeling of superiority is at the center of the progressive (read, enlightened) mindset: everybody else is uneducated, racist, or otherwise deplorable. It’s a set of quasi-religious belief and as such does not require a proof, just a confirmation. It’s a modern Western form of jihadism, just not as violent as it’s logistically hard to behead infidels via the Internet.
NYT is just being its true self: making sense is not an objective, being a political tribune is.
I like their pompous title, all initial caps, “The Editorial Board of the New York Times,” so one might overlook that it is just a bunch of ineffectual clowns sitting in some office in NYC, kind of like the Wizard of Oz, pulling all these levers and switches, which are connected to noting except the imagination of those who take him seriously.
@Jack,
I would not call them ineffectual. The editorial is not written for people like you and me. They don’t care if Trump ever reads it. NYT is a political tribune built on the other side of the wall (thank you for the metaphor, toucan sam!)
I believe that their expectation is that the faithful will read it, and will chant it, and then people will go to the streets and march on the White House demanding, “Sell the Hotel! Sell the Hotel!”
And later, they will tell their kids a spooky bedtime story of a monster named “Donald The Spider” who robbed little children of their candy. Because the revolution needs fresh blood.
Always take the advice of your bitter enemies.
Yeah, it’s what columnists, pundits and editorial boards do. They make statements regarding what the government should do.