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Pamela Paul’s rhetoric, cervical cancer deaths, radical Édouard Louis, and more

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Nation Weekly
February 10, 2023
New York Times opinion writer Pamela Paul has promoted anti-trans moral panics, contributed diatribes against alleged “woke” censorship, and is now framing Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis as a model that Democrats should emulate.

“But the idea of adopting a Democratic version of the DeSantis brand is very much the opposite of the sort of political wisdom that Paul and her evidently somnolent editors imagine it to be,” writes our DC Bureau Chief, Chris Lehmann. Below, read the rest of Lehmann’s case against the damaging rhetoric of Pamela Paul in the paper of record.
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You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, “Gotta Hand It to” Ron DeSantis
Pamela Paul’s latest New York Times op-ed argues that the left should take a lesson from the right-wing Florida governor.
Chris Lehmann
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Tara K. Menon
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