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Fans of my posts know I’m a frequent critic of The New York Times.
Still, I believe in credit where credit is due.
But I had to read this passage from today’s Times twice to fully believe it.
At Hymie’s Delicatessen in Merion Station, Pa., Democratic-leaning diners brought up antisemitism concerns unprompted during a recent lunchtime rush.
Mindy Cohen, 64, said she opposed Mr. Mastriano “because of his stance on antisemitism, on religion, on abortion.”
Stanley Isenberg, 98, drew parallels to how both John F. Kennedy and former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1928, faced anti-Catholic sentiment.*
Mastriano’s Attacks on Jewish School Set Off Outcry Over Antisemitic Signaling.
There it was!
It was finally “fit to print” something voters on our side are saying in the mythical Times diner story.
Ever since November 8, 2016, the Times has sent reporters out on “Diner Safaris,” defined in the Washington Post as a big-city reporter is parachuted into a small town in the middle of the country in search of the secret wisdom of diner patrons in overalls and trucker caps to meet with people in “real America.” The people in the stories were overwhelming white, but the story assured us their votes were governed not by race or nativism, but by “economic anxiety,” even though by 2018 the Times itself wrote that Trump voters actually were driven not driven by economic anxiety, but “loss of status,” or, dare they say, race. The great Driftglass calls it Magic Ruralism.
But now we finally have our own “people in diners” story in the Times. Some might say the entire diner genre has been played out. Some might point out that “Hymie’s” is in a Philadelphia suburb, admittedly not the “midwest,” but still part of a state James Carville describes as “Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.” So I say it counts!
And as for me, I look forward to being one of the subjects in a future Times “Urban Safari:”
At Zabars on the Upper West Side, Bella means Abzug, not a vampire movie heroine. But they do know this: Jerry was the obvious choice in the Democratic primary and Jared and Ivanka are goniffs.
*Holy crap, 98? Maybe Al Smith kissed him as a baby.