On Thursday, Stuart Stevens woke up to a piece in The New York Times written by Trump adviser Peter Navarro. In case you need reminding … it’s this guy:
Stuart was, not surprisingly, upset. It’s one thing to platform bad people. Stephen Miller? Sure. He’s in a position of leadership and he hasn’t been convicted of crimes or proven to plagiarize. Steve Bannon? I mean … maybe?
But Peter Navarro not only has nothing of actual impact to say, he actually invented human beings so that he could cite his work … with invented humans … who he invented … and who just so happen to think Peter Navarro is brilliant. This isn’t farce. It happened.
Has the New York Times Lost its Mind?
Today, the Times Outlook section published a piece by convicted criminal and well-documented academic fraudster Peter Navarro. They identified him as: “Peter Navarro, an assistant to President Trump and senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.”
And one of the last remaining national mainstream outlets that still does real journalism gave him credibility by publishing what he had to say. This is a real danger to our democracy. Navarro is not just unserious; he is actively working to destroy Americans’ relationship to facts. At best, he’s a propagandist. At worst, he is working, without any sense of common cause or humanity, to destroy our way of life.
Stuart isn’t as kind. Watch now.
