David Litt: Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?

The phrase that forced itself, unbidden, onto my mind while reading this was: insufferable asshole...

To summarize: though my MAGA brother-in-law is wrong about everything, he's got something I want (knowledge of surfing)...so I decided not to cut him off for his political beliefs.

   He never, e.g., acknowledges that his faction was wrong about COVID, the vax, or lockdowns, he refuses to acknowledge that vax skeptics were largely right, and never (unless I'm forgetting something...but I can't stand to read it again) acknowledges that he was wrong to treat vaccine-hesitancy as a reason to cut off friends and family.

   Of course the right and the left were both wrong about the vax--the left was flat-out crazy about it, and notably wrong about its efficacy, especially with respect to transmission. The right--much of it, anyway--was wrong to think that it was extremely ineffective and extremely dangerous. As I understand it, the vax turned out to be fairly effective at decreasing the severity of symptoms, and reasonably safe for most people.

   Anyway, I might go into more detail about the post in question in more detail later...but it wears its smug stupidity on its sleave, so I don't think I really have to.

   Note that Litt was a speechwriter for Obama.