Ex-restaurant critic Joshua David Stein that worked for the New York Observer resigned after the newspaper's endorsement of Donald Trump and for not staying neutral during the presidential campaign.
For the last three years, I've been the restaurant critic for the New York Observer, a weekly paper in the upper minor leagues of metropolitan newspapers. Generally speaking, being a critic is a good deal and being a restaurant critic is even better. You get paid to eat, eat well (usually) and then write about it. What's not to love?
Last week, after the paper endorsed Donald Trump for president of the United States in a bizarro editorial, I resigned. It's not quite falling on my sword, more like leaning gently on a butter knife. I had long known, of course, that the paper teetered toward Trumpism. It is owned, after all, by Trump's prospective son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the boyish real estate scion betrothed to the Donald's daughter, Ivanka Trump.
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Had it been Kasich, meh. I like restaurants more than I dislike him. Had it been Cruz, a man with remarkably sensual eyelashes and terrible, terrible policy, I could have eked out a few more reviews until the general election came. (Both Cruz and Trump are projected to lose in head-to-head match-ups no matter who the Democratic challenger is.)
Trump, however, is sui generis. His danger lies not just in his policies – which, hitherto, had been rather moderate – but in his demagogic summoning of our worst angels. His rallies are like seances from a much darker time and an even darker future. So it is besides the point entirely that he will certainly become a scary blip come November. To stand with Trump is to stand with hate; what I ate, and what I thought about it, is small beer compared with that.
Via Grub Street.