The upside of wrong

Shadi Hamid made a name for himself by consistently downplaying the threat posed by the contemporary Republican Party in both dreary and self-important prose, most famously by asserting that the only threat to democracy in 2020 was the possibility that Democrats would not accept an opposition victory.

I think you know how this ends:

I am super curious what January 6, 2021 tweets @shadihamid felt the need to delete.

Anyway, The Washington Post hired him today, because being relentlessly wrong and dishonest is an excellent career strategy. pic.twitter.com/w1GuWUuSmt— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 22, 2023

Sad that he moved to WaPo too late for his first column to be about how a Republican Supreme Court would never overrule Roe, although of course the Post had that one covered anyway.