I’m bringing the Charles Blow column up here.

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You don’t get a pat on the back for ratcheting down from rabid after exploiting
that very radicalism to your advantage. Unrepentant opportunism belies a
staggering lack of character and caring that can’t simply be vanquished from
memory. You did real harm to this country and many of its citizens, and I will never
— never — forget that.

As I read the transcript and then listened to the audio, the slime factor was
overwhelming.
After a campaign of bashing The Times relentlessly, in the face of the actual
journalists, he tempered his whining with flattery.

He ended the meeting by saying:
“I will say, The Times is, it’s a great, great American jewel. A world jewel. And I
hope we can all get along well.”
I will say proudly and happily that I was not present at this meeting. The very
idea of sitting across the table from a demagogue who preyed on racial, ethnic and
religious hostilities and treating him with decorum and social grace fills me with
disgust, to the point of overflowing. Let me tell you here where I stand on your “I
hope we can all get along” plea: Never.
You are an aberration and abomination who is willing to do and say anything —
no matter whom it aligns you with and whom it hurts — to satisfy your ambitions.

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