Let me just say as a person whose life was turned upside-down for awhile partially as a result of the hot-take fast-take who-cares insider political journalism of the aughts, there was never a time when it should have existed.
Also:
People who don't understand it was a luxury of their privilege that they were *ever* able to treat politics as a game cannot responsibly cover politics. It was evident then, and it is evident still. https://t.co/Mz4vySLWia pic.twitter.com/WMGgHm69zl
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 30, 2018
If you can't view the image embedded in the tweet, it's a screenshot of the final two paragraphs of the piece, which read:
And yet, perhaps there's reason to be nostalgic for that amoral, tactical coverage of American politics. When I spoke the other day to one of the key figures of the old school, who declined to be quoted by name, he sounded a little wistful:Following my tweet, Eastsidekate and I had the following exchange (which I'm sharing with her permission):
"You almost long for the days when it was a game."
Love 2 B nostalgic about amorality
— eastsidekate (@eastsidekate) August 30, 2018
Right? The Good Old Days, when white dudes shaping the public conversation could be glib sociopaths and there wasn't a Nazi in the White House to make them feel bad about it.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 30, 2018
It must be tough to have a case of the sads about Donald Trump making it so obvious that your immorality has consequences.
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