Douglass Murray tried to destroy my life over tweets that he didn't like with a badly argued and badly written hit piece. So bad, his own fans thought it was embarrassing. In the end, he nuked his own credibility and I enjoyed an outpouring of support. A wonderful start to 2022.
And that's not an exaggeration: Murray called for my professional ruin. I'm a new father, too, and I am just getting started in this industry. Murray's piece had potentially severe consequences for my family. But it took people about 30 seconds to see that his claims were false.
But Murray was also working with Bari Weiss, a supposedly "anti-woke" lib who is never more vicious than against people to her right. Irony: the woman who tried to cancel me is starting a university as an "anti-cancel-culture academic project."
These people built their brand on denouncing frivolous and promiscuous use of bigotry accusations—but they just as eagerly label everyone they dislike with career-ending accusations of "anti-Semite," "racist," etc, without flinching. Why didn't Weiss or Murray contact me first?
The fact that these people can attack from within conservative spaces, with the imprimatur of respectable conservatism, makes them more dangerous than the left. Murray's hit piece on me was amplified by lib journos, by people at The Bulwark and The Dispatch. That's the point.
But the fact that this hit on me was a dud and even backfired—the response to it was overwhelmingly negative—shows that their ability to effectively police people isn't what it used to be, and that is a very good thing. Here's the top comment on Murray's article: 
Again, I am tremendously grateful to everyone who defended and supported me. That is ultimately the major difference between now and just a few years ago, when these hits would scatter and demoralize rather than galvanize and unify people.
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