ges: You don't have to agree with albaby1 (I sometimes don't), but he's probably one of the mosts thoughtful posters on this board.

No shame on him.

Well, thanks, but I'm well aware of albaby1's posting history here and that's one of the reasons his support of Douthat's opinion is shameful.

As a reminder, Douthat has previously written op-eds insisting "There Will Be No Trump Coup," and rationalizing "Four Ways of Looking at Christian Nationalism."

He is a textbook moron.

When Biden announced his student loan forgiveness program, which was based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the president could do exactly that, Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

What a lying asshole.

When Douthat writes "when development happens under progressives’ auspices, it is often soul-crushingly unattractive," that's straight up Nazi nonsense.

And again, I ask: WTF is the difference between applauding Trumpedo murdering boat people in international waters because it is faster and more efficient, and applauding tearing down the East Wing because it avoids all that pesky red tape?

There are folks here who want to buy a ticket on that ride, but you can count me out.