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waterlesscloud on Dec 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inside the Collapse of the New Republic

Let's be blunt about it- Buying TNR was an attempt to buy status with the old school intellectual liberal elite. Which is completely valid as far as it goes.

The unimaginably bad mistake is to then screw around with it in a way that makes it no longer what he was trying to buy.

dangerboysteve on Dec 13, 2014 [–]

I think you hit the nail on the head with this. And it echoed the same approach he and his husband took for their political foray.

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