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Ross Douthat Quotes

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“Where did so many people originally get the idea that Trump was the right guy to fix our manifestly broken government? Not from Russian bots or targeted social media ad buys, but from a prime-time show that sold itself as real, and sold him as a business genius.”
— Ross Douthat, Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes
Tagged: Reality TV, Fake News, Election 2016
“Corporate activism on social issues isn’t in tension with corporate self-interest on tax policy and corporate stinginess in paychecks. Rather, the activism increasingly exists to protect the self-interest and the stinginess — to justify the ways of C.E.O.s to cultural power brokers, so that those same power brokers will leave them alone (and forgive their support for Trump’s economic agenda) in realms that matter more to the corporate bottom line.”
— Ross Douthat, The Rise of Woke Capital
Tagged: Woke Capitalism
“Liberals should ask why their crusade for freedom and equality found itself with such a captain, and what his legacy says about their cause. Conservatives should ask how their crusade for faith and family and community ended up so Hefnerian itself — with a conservative news network that seems to have been run on Playboy Mansion principles and a conservative party that just elected a playboy as our president.”
— Ross Douthat, Opinion | Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner
Tagged: Politics, Capitalism, Activism, Hugh Hefner, Liberalism US, Playboy Magazine, Women and Girls, Sex, Pornography, celebrity
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