Rebecca Traister is a journalist who I have found to be particularly insightful. I listened to her last night as a guest on The Ezra Klein Show podcast. Klein is most recently with The New York Times. The immediate subject was the career, and now the what appears to be the fall, of Andrew Cuomo.
I was one of those millions caught up last year in watching Cuomo's daily TV appearances as he seemed to be exhibiting great leadership handling the startling covid crisis in New York. Bill kept warning me about him. At the time, his warnings seemed besides the point.
What made this discussion extraordinary was when it branched out to talk about toxic white male leadership in general, including observations about Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Steve Jobs and Hillary Clinton's campaign to survive in it.
It ended with a plea: Does it have to be this way?
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