I do not think that word means what you you think it means

Good luck to Jennifer Rubin's new Substack newsletter, but I don't expect it to live up to its name.

The latest writer abandoning the sinking S.S. WaPo is Jennifer Rubin. (That the Washington Post is in a death spiral, and that it employed Rubin as a columnist, I leave to you to determine if there’s any connection.)

She’s going the Substack route, the proposed name of which raises several questions:

This is The Contrarian

The Contrarian will be a central hub for unvarnished, unbowed, and uncompromising reported opinion and analysis that exists in opposition to the authoritarian threat. Our pre-election warnings that Donald Trump posed an unprecedented threat to our democracy were often treated as alarmist. However, the election of an openly authoritarian figure who traffics in conspiracies, lies, unconstitutional schemes and un-American notions, has moved the United States to an inflection point. The future of our democracy, and what Lincoln called “the last best hope of earth” hangs in the balance. And yet corporate and billionaire media and too many in the political establishment persist in downplaying th…