May 15, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| I grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, so a swing county in the most important swing state, and it has been for most of my life. | |
| And so, you know, growing up somewhere where there's a lot of class divisions and a lot of political divisions. | |
| I just have friends and family from all across the political spectrum. | |
| And I'd always had this kind of idea for like a big tent media organization, a place for the people from home where like my friends and family from home could all read the same thing and actually meet and have like a shared set of facts and also share like a wide range of arguments where they're being exposed to views from the left and exposed to views from the right. | |
| And I wanted that big tent media organization to exist somewhere. | |
| And so I kind of came up with a formula, which I think is our special sauce, a format for the newsletter, which is, what if we just explain the story? | |
| In the most neutral language possible, which, by the way, is the hardest part. | |
| The introduction is the hardest part of the story to write because you have to do it in a way that's so, so balanced and so even-handed with neutral language that you're not going to offend the sensibilities of either the left or the right tribe in our country. | |
| And then just explicitly say, here are three arguments from people on the left, and here are three arguments from people on the right. | |
| And that was the concept. | |
| I'm going to just show you the best arguments I can find, the most compelling, convincing arguments I can find from conservatives and from liberals about this divisive topic, and you can sort of make up your mind. | |
| The number one piece of feedback we get from people on the right and the left is, I feel like I'm going less insane when I read your newsletter. | |
| Like, I just have a better understanding of What the other side thinks, the people I perceive as my enemies. | |
| And it makes it easier to kind of see where they're coming from. | |
| And I think the reason for that is because both sides are guilty of this thing. | |
| It's like elevating the radicals of the other side and making them appear as if they are representative of the whole. | |
| So like, you know, there's a reason in our political dichotomy that every conservative and liberal Can tell you about Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. | |
| And it's because they're a little bit more on the fringe of their party. | |
| Maybe they have some views that are outside the mainstream, outside the norm. | |
| And it's because the left takes Marjorie Taylor Greene, and they'll find the worst thing she's ever said, and her lowest moments as a human being, and they will say, this person is representative of the current Republican Party. | |
| And the right will take Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and isolate the dumbest thing she's ever said in an interview, and they'll say, this person is representative of the Democratic Party. | |
| They have a hard time telling you who, you know, Representative Jake Auchincloss is, who's like a moderate Democrat from Massachusetts, who I think is more representative of the mainstream Democratic Party than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. | |
| You know, there are a lot of conservatives out there who are like brilliant economists and thinkers who are standing up behind Trump's tariffs right now. | |
| Nobody on the left can tell you who they are. | |
| You know, they are just obsessed with... | |
| Peter Navarro and, you know, maybe something a little, some silly or outlandish he said on cable television yesterday, because that's what the left is feeding them. | |
| And we try and bring forward the people who are making really compelling arguments, who are sort of, at least some of our newsletter is representing the best of the left and the best of the right. |
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