Thread by @DrewHolden360

I’ve seen others do this, so a quick🧵of the pieces I’m most proud of having written in 2020.

Starting w/ my first piece ever in print. As someone who dwells on the retrospective, I think this, for @nytimes early in the pandemic, held up tragically well.
google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…

I explored how things have changed since in a subsequent piece for @nytimes, focused on the unintended tragedies of our response to the coronavirus.

The lockdown has enormous, often overlooked, consequences. I unpack some of them here: google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…

That isn’t all that I wrote about the lockdown and coronavirus.

This one, for @dcexaminer, explores why defaulting to what medical/scientific experts think is best fundamentally misunderstands the role of public policy. google.com/amp/s/www.wash…

I’ve tried to focus on issues where I’ve found the conservative response wanting. One of those was this piece for @NRO about the harmful, and little discussed, impact of the quiet decision to gut Voice of America, who advance a free and fair press abroad. google.com/amp/s/www.nati…

I’ve tried not to avoid sharing opinions that many of you, and many of my political fellows, won’t like. My latest is about the lack of courage among elected Republicans & commentators who tolerated and promoted election conspiracy theories, for @amconmag. theamericanconservative.com/articles/profi…

And I broke my usual rule and made a prediction, one that I felt strongly about, and one that held up: that @ProjectLincoln is a self-interested group of grifters, who wouldn’t actually impact the election.

This one for @thedailybeast. thedailybeast.com/the-lincoln-pr…

One area I want to write more about is the “Russian collusion” conspiracy theory, pushed relentlessly by Democrats and the media, and the ways that it’s fallen apart.

I dove down the memoryhole for @FDRLST to highlight some of the worst offenders: thefederalist.com/2020/10/13/wil…

Last but not least, I had my first piece for a mainstream audience, this one for @washingtonpost, back in February.

Bernie obviously didn’t end up winning, but I stand behind the logic that writing him off (then or in the future) is a mistake. google.com/amp/s/www.wash…

I don’t write full time. I have a normal 9-5 job & my pieces (and 🧵s) are all yeomen work.

So I’m enormously grateful to the editors who give me the time of day & all of you who follow along. I’ll keep it up in 2021 (and hopefully beyond) and I hope you’ll join me for the ride.