{"id":2989,"date":"2020-07-21T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/conservative-andrew-sullivan-gets-the-boot\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:27:37","slug":"conservative-andrew-sullivan-gets-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/conservative-andrew-sullivan-gets-the-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Conservative&#8217; Andrew Sullivan Gets the Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The defenestration of Andrew Sullivan by<em> New York Magazine<\/em> shows once again that for the Left one cannot be too far left. <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/07\/andrew-sullivan-see-you-next-friday.html?fbclid=IwAR1-jL3RKqLRfbVhlt-eNZEAbTnzGssPalSPZB0L8y1J2iTpETLxw4BDuEo\">This is rich<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The latest study of Harvard University faculty, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/harvard-newspaper-survey-finds-1-of-faculty-members-identify-as-conservative\">finds<\/a> that only 1.46 percent call themselves conservative. But that\u2019s probably higher than the proportion of journalists who call themselves conservative at the New York <em>Times<\/em> or CNN or <em>New York<\/em> Magazine. And maybe it\u2019s worth pointing out that \u201cconservative\u201d in my case means that I have passionately <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/02\/andrew-sullivan-trumps-presidency-as-absurd-tragedy.html\">opposed<\/a> Donald J. Trump and pioneered marriage equality, that I support legalized drugs, criminal-justice reform, more redistribution of wealth, aggressive action against climate change, police reform, a realist foreign policy, and laws to protect transgender people from discrimination. I was one of the first journalists in established media to come out. I was a major and early supporter of Barack Obama. I intend to vote for Biden in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">My best Sully post, which attracted some very good comments: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2018\/02\/the-left-eats-its-own-andrew-sullivan.html\">The Left Eats its Own: Andrew Sullivan<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I stand with Sully despite his mindless anti-Trumpery which is so extreme that he will, <em>horribile dictu<\/em>, vote for Biden come November! Can a puppet be a weathervane? That&#39;s creepy, sleepy, lunchbox Joe, man of the people, coal miner, and good Catholic.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Free speech! Open inquiry! Down with the Left! Long live the Republic!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">We conservatives are the new classical liberals. The times they are a&#39;changin&#39;.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defenestration of Andrew Sullivan by New York Magazine shows once again that for the Left one cannot be too far left. This is rich: The latest study of Harvard University faculty, for example, finds that only 1.46 percent call themselves conservative. But that\u2019s probably higher than the proportion of journalists who call themselves conservative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/conservative-andrew-sullivan-gets-the-boot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Conservative&#8217; Andrew Sullivan Gets the Boot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,231,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-free-speech","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}