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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 8

NYT Columnist Questions Political 'Enemy' After 17 Years of Targeting Obama-Era Elite Consensus

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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 8

NYT Columnist Questions Political 'Enemy' After 17 Years of Targeting Obama-Era Elite Consensus

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 8

Seventeen years after joining The New York Times, the columnist says he is no longer sure who his main political "enemy" should be.
For years, he cast the early Obama-era elite consensus as that target—a left-leaning, technocratic worldview shared across parts of Democratic, Silicon Valley and establishment Republican circles.
He says his critique was both substantive and strategic, citing differences over religion, abortion, immigration, marijuana legalization and the Middle East, while rejecting Republican pressure to adapt to that consensus.
The essay argues that elite critics were necessary because the consensus, in his view, was prone to overreach and too confident in meritocratic management of a globalizing world.

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