He’s by no means a saint but he’s a decent man who is personally ambitious (laudatory). I don’t mind hearing good faith criticism of the things he actually says and does but that is in short supply among his haters.
At a certain point one must acknowledge that the duty of the sourherner to be a good neighbor supersedes the duty of the northerner to always imagine the southerner as a good neighbor.
“The border is a mess“ means ”racists have been screaming at me and I thought I could make them stop.“ You can’t compromise with people who don’t have a rationally-considered, reality-based view.
“The Measure of a Man” is more central to my moral journey than any holy text so I’m definitely as surprised as anyone to find myself on this side of the debate, but here we are.
So, I do take this point seriously, but I’m not really seeing the behavior being criticized? I see the occasional ironic use of “clanker” but most of the ire I’m seeing directed at AI seems to be grounded in frustration with what the users and proponents are trying to do with it.
He even says something about how he really wants to play the whole Clinton quote and then he cuts it before she starts speaking charitably of “the other basket.” The worst Clinton and Obama quotes they have decline to generalize. Standard Trump fare is to decline nuance.
There was something darkly hilarious about Ezra Klein opening his Coates interview with a clip of Trump saying he hates those who disagree with him and does not wish them well without nuance or qualification and then later pivoting to the Basket of Deplorables quote later.
They’re only dumber if Democrats let them touch the stove. If we bail them out unconditionally, we’re the fools. And we’re almost as complicit in this cycle.
