Sally Quinn and the Establishment Blues
Sad in another.Over there at The New York Times, longtime Washington journalist Sally Quinn has headlined: “It’s No Longer So Much Fun to Be MAGA in Washington.”Ms. Quinn writes:The worst part about living in Donald Trump’s Washington has been seeing just how much fun he and all the MAGA vandals he brought to power have been having sacking and pillaging the place. This while the rest of us longtime Washingtonians who abided by norms, shared values and even bipartisanship were filled first with shock, then a feeling of helplessness, and hopelessness.
- ▪Sad in another.Over there at The New York Times, longtime Washington journalist Sally Quinn has headlined: “It’s No Longer So Much Fun to Be MAGA in Washington.”Ms.
- ▪Quinn writes:The worst part about living in Donald Trump’s Washington has been seeing just how much fun he and all the MAGA vandals he brought to power have been having sacking and pillaging the place.
- ▪This while the rest of us longtime Washingtonians who abided by norms, shared values and even bipartisanship were filled first with shock, then a feeling of helplessness, and hopelessness.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 16 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean right. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Sally Quinn and the Establishment Blues — Real Clear Politics
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| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:07:52 +0000 |
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It’s amusing, in a way. Sad in another.Over there at The New York Times, longtime Washington journalist Sally Quinn has headlined: “It’s No Longer So Much Fun to Be MAGA in Washington.”Ms. Quinn writes:The worst part about living in Donald Trump’s Washington has been seeing just how much fun he and all the MAGA vandals he brought to power have been having sacking and pillaging the place. This while the rest of us longtime Washingtonians who abided by norms, shared values and even bipartisanship were filled first with shock, then a feeling of helplessness, and hopelessness. It could border on passivity. What could be done?A year ago, I wrote a guest essay for Times Opinion about how scared many of us were in Washington: “Nobody feels safe. Nobody feels protected.
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