Great Tom Nichols thread on why anonymous op-ed author SHOULD be anonymous now, but not later

[highplainsdem]

And btw, Norm Eisen agrees with Nichols:

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Tom Nichols' thread starts with this tweet. I'll copy all the text from the tweets below:

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If the author of the NYT had used his/her/their name, all we'd be talking about is who they are, where they grew up, their entire career resume, who else they ever worked for, and where they are now. The message of the oped itself would be completely lost. /1


We'd be having endless debates among people who'd be on TV by tonight yelling "I knew X and he/she is the finest person I know!" and "I know X and he/she was a jerk when we worked together!" and long human-interest in X's long road to GOP dissidence and blah blah blah. /2


And no one would be talking about what we should be talking about, which is that there are people in the WH who think the President is incapable of executing his job and has to be insulated from making any dangerous decisions. /3


Worse yet, Trump, the GOP Nut Caucus, and MAGA cultists would go into overdrive trying to punish this person. They'd be expelled from the WH, and maybe even have to worry about personal safety for a while. Again, all while the message gets completely lost. /4


With all that said, whoever it is will have to come forward at some point, and sooner rather than later. Because now that we've heard the message, the idiotic conspiracy theories are starting. So, I'm glad the NYT vetted this, but the public is going to need to know, soon. /5x

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Needs knowing later. 1) It's a service conveying the info, 2) They are in the end ENABLING hard cons

The op-ed writer loves the packing the courts, the tax give-away to the 0.01%, separating children from parents, and all the CONservative crap the RubleCons are enabling and enacting.

The op-ed writer is thus one of the enablers and needs to be exposed later, so they don't have some kind of rehabilitation after scurrying away in the shadows.