Claire Malone

She sends the email.

She walks up to people at the party.

She sends the follow-up note.

That's kind of her.

And she is sort of good in a room, as they say, right?

She and Brett Stevens start after Trump is elected.

So they start in 2017.

And she's editing and assigning things.

But pretty soon she starts to write op-eds.

I think the pieces were often responding to Twitter discourse and therefore got picked up on Twitter.

And they sort of whipped into a frenzy.

And, you know, whenever her pieces would go online, sort of traffic jumps at the New York Times opinion page.

Right.

And sort of.

From inside the tent, I think often was her posture challenging what progressives are saying.

I would say her defining ideology probably during this period, you know, coalesced into anti-woke, right?

That there was too much cancellation, too much groupthink.

She sort of eventually would take her issues with the New York Times and what she saw as its, you know, overly woke groupthink.

She would take it to Twitter itself.

Yeah, I mean, it's a letter that's both, you know, emotional.