Even for surly conservative antagonists, the descent of the New York Times, from newspaper of record to craven servant of the liberal consensus to its current mode of operation — desperate pleas for relevance — has been no fun at all to watch. Its “Pay Attention to Me!” gambit over the weekend — a front-page editorial endorsing mass confiscation of firearms, its first front-page editorial over the course of many eventful decades (Franklin Roosevelt’s putting American citizens into prison camps, John Kennedy’s murder by a Communist, Germans’ fulfilling President Reagan’s command to “tear down this wall,” etc.) — is the whimper substituting for a bang.
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