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23 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
You'd think constantly being in a state of extreme psychological distress about US politics wouldn't be such a great testament to the analytical acuity of a professional political columnist, but I guess times have changed
This has been going on for years with Michelle Goldberg: a never-ending cycle of psychic turmoil that serves as the impetus for her New York Times columns. Is lacking the ability to regulate one's emotions supposed to be an admirable quality in a professional political columnist?
In 2016, Michelle Goldberg confessed that Trump had "poisoned her dreams" and was causing her to regularly wake up in the middle of the night panicked with "agitated horror." Totally seems like a psychological disposition conducive to grounded, rational political analysis
All I'm doing is pointing out the absurdity of a NYT political columnist becoming so unmoored by national politics that she's spent 5+ years chronicling her own nonstop emotional volatility. The alternative to this loopiness isn't necessarily "apathy"

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