The ascent of Bari Weiss, who Paramount announced on Monday will be editor-in-chief of CBS News, at first glance seems like a media story. But it’s really a story about American politics and the two major parties. There is a new kind of “moderate” Republican, perhaps best exemplified by Weiss. And this kind of Republican is poised to keep gaining power and shifting the country to the right in harmful and destructive ways, even if they never have the political power of more explicitly pro-Trump conservatives.
I don’t even know if I buy it’s “reactionary,” at least not when it’s coming from people who already have somewhat of a following.
I think it’s usually a person selling their brand like a bought and paid for influencer who will market whatever policies they’re being paid to advertise to a target demographic.
Oh sure, for many of them I largely agree that they don’t buy into it.
But they’re certainly selling it. The Free Press made it’s bread by telling conservatives that they’re right in thinking that the “excesses” of the left are even worse than those of the right despite the absurdly of that position.