The far right's secret weapon
this article relates to a NY Times story about a "Hilary/Biden voter" that was voting for Youngkin that turned out to by a right wing activist. The reporter has yet to issue a correction...
Here, he doubles down:
The far right's secret weapon
Have some extreme reactionism you need to sell? Call the politics desk of the New York Times.
Liberals woke up to some bad news yesterday: The governor’s race in Virginia, a state Biden won by double digits, went to a previously unknown Republican. More worryingly, Glenn Youngkin seems to have won on the strength of his opposition to educating Virginia’s schoolchildren about America’s ongoing history of racism—a hot topic in a state still grappling with its legacy as
the old Confederate capital and the white-supremacist riot that rocked
Charlottesville four years ago.
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The New York Times explained it like this:
A natural campaigner running his first race, Mr. Youngkin found a way to enlist both the Republican base still in thrall to Donald J. Trump and less ideological Republicans who rejected the party in the Trump era. Furious Democratic attacks that he was a Trumpian wolf in suburban-dad fleece never quite stuck because, in both biography and manner, Mr. Youngkin did not fit the former president’s bullying, self-aggrandizing profile. His ability to direct multiple messages — red meat to the G.O.P. base via interviews with right-wing media, and a less divisive pitch to swing voters, including on parental input for schools — will serve as a blueprint for his party in the midterms.
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Few institutions did more than the Times to help Youngkin—a multi-millionaire former CEO of the immensely powerful defense-aerospace-and-everything-else private equity giant known as the Carlyle Group, who trafficked in
antisemitic calumny on the campaign trail—sell himself as the aforementioned “suburban dad.” The Times’ coverage down the stretch often seemed calibrated to launder Republican appeals to white Virginians’ racial insecurities in ways that would be palatable to voters in the ostensibly liberal strongholds of the commonwealth like Northern Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads.
And one Times reporter in particular did yeoman’s work on that front.
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