Isaac Saul

Sometimes it happens.

But the analogy I use is like, it's raining outside.

We're not arguing about whether it's raining or not that often.

We're usually arguing about what the rain means.

For one person, they come outside, their hair gets wet, they've spent an hour doing their makeup, they're pissed off about that.

For another person, they come outside, they realize they forgot to water the garden, it's raining, great news, I don't have to do that chore later, it's done, it's off my plate.

Same event, really different experience for two different people.

I would say 90% of the time, our discourse and arguments are kind of in that space about what the thing means.

And it's less about this really alternate facts, alternate reality perspective.

That's been my experience doing the work.

Yeah, I mean, I think one of the really nice things about our format and something that distinguishes us from a lot of other people who try and do this work, the sort of nonpartisan, we're gonna elevate different arguments, is we give ourselves space to call those kinds of logical fallacies out in this little editorial that we write every day.

So you'll see in my take, when I write that in every day's newsletter or do it on the podcast, I'm often addressing the arguments that we're publishing

and trying to call some balls and strikes about what I find reasonable and what I find unreasonable.

And I think my experience, which has been really interesting, was during the Biden administration, our newsletter was super popular with a lot of conservatives because I think it's the press's job to be adversarial.

And I was writing a lot of adversarial things.

I was one of the first politic writers and opinion columnists who was coming out saying that Biden did not seem fit for the job in 2021, 2022.

And I got skewered by my liberal readers, many of whom canceled subscriptions and left.

I think I ultimately was sort of justified in that perspective.

The administration switch, Trump came in, he started doing a bunch of crazy stuff.

I started criticizing him for how insane some of his presidency has been.