Also in today’s newsletter, president-elect faced ‘sufficient’ evidence for conviction in election case, special counsel report says

The NYT has gone all in on “a new era of conservatism” with this article.

First, they directly compare tech bro billionaires flocking to bend the knee to Trump to the “surge in support for social justice causes” after the killing of George Floyd by police. Nothing problematic about that comparison, right?

CW:Offensive pejoratives published unredacted by the NYT

Later, they quote a “top banker” as saying, “We can say ‘r*tard’ and ‘p*ssy’ without fear of getting cancelled … it’s a new dawn.”

I know the NYT has always been conservative, but this together with the way the Washington Post has been cosying up to Trump, says a lot about where the US is headed.