Another failed NY Times oped by Bret Stephens. Is it a bigger failure for Stephens (who is consistently bad...but seldom this bad) or the editors at The NY Times (who chose to give this kind of fact-ignoring, reality twisting sophistry a platform)?
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Biden has presided over a logistical miracle w/the vaccine distribution, an unprecedented economic recovery, more job creation than any other in his first 6 months, undoing of Trumpian damage done by executive order, record appointment of judges (& w/unprecedented diversity)...
...reentering the Paris Accord and the WTO, leading the world in vaccine diplomacy, ending a 20 year disaster of a conflict, getting 125,000 people out of Afghanistan in a matter of weeks in the face of huge challenges, making combatting the climate crisis a priority,...
...negotiation of a bipartisan infrastructure bill in the midst of the most toxic political environment in modern US history, lifting 12 million people and half of all children out of poverty with the relief package...and much, much more.
To suggest that is failure is simply to deny reality. Is there no editor who has the responsibility to say, "Hey Bret, what about the facts? What about the record economic growth, the millions of jobs, the restoration of decency and good governance to the White House?"
Let's have diverse opinions by all means. Let's have robust political debate. But shouldn't the leading paper in the country also have standards and limit that debate to arguments grounded in the real world and rationality?
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