Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Senior Writer @NRO. author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Making sense of the disruptive politics of the 21st century.

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1Feb 16, '25This is the first time I’ve heard the theory that the Holocaust wasn’t conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones.615×11.1M29k4k2.3k
2Nov 11, '25This is a failed experiment. End it.70.5×1.3M18k1.2k435
3Jan 23, '25Feel like journalism is letting me down on Gen Z. Apparently the vast majority of the kids in our local high school are all using the app Life360 which was meant for parents to tra68.7×1.2M15k8132.8k
4Oct 30, '23Hamas killed almost as many people in six hours as the IRA did in 30 years. Over half of IRA victims were uniformed police, military or prison guards. Hamas’ October 7th gesture wa39×702k3.9k567244
5Nov 6, '24Honestly if this is real, the GOP needs to do a real version of the 2012 post mortem and try to figure out how not to lose this the minute Trump is off the stage.32.2×579k2.1k16276
6Feb 28, '25Anyone positing that Trump is playing to a tiny bubble of MAGA on X on the Ukraine issue isn't keeping up.31.2×560k2.7k716263
7Jan 30, '25This has been an awesome test between people who have heard a couple Bible verses and people who have been educated in their faith.30.9×556k6.4k380417
8Nov 5, '25“The neighborhoods where Mamdani won aren’t the working-class strongholds of the twentieth century. They’re something newer, stranger: enclaves of educated precarity. These are not25.8×464k2.4k415627
9Aug 26, '25If she got pregnant today, medically it would qualify as a “geriatric pregnancy.”23×413k2.3k40152
10Mar 18, '20I haven’t found one person between the age of 28-45 who hasn’t found themselves scolding family members over 60 to take this more seriously.19.7×041k3.7k164
11Dec 9, '17Finally, it can be tried as an adult.19.6×036k8k2
12Aug 4, '25It’s weird how much of globalization turns out to be Brahmin Indian women applying American Black radicalism to cast themselves as moral inheritors of disposed slaves in contexts w17.3×312k5.2k419631
13Jul 15, '24Great VP pick. Finally ditching the most braindead ideologies that have been dragging the party down, and finally a candidate in touch with issues that actually affect people under17.3×311k4.6k47884
14Mar 26, '20Last night EMS in New York took 6,406 medical 911 calls, the highest volume ever, surpassing 9/11/01.14.9×020k8.7k300
15Nov 5, '24I concluded that it is reprehensibly vain to morally free ride on the millions of Trump voters for a result I prefer while I pat myself on the back for not taking my own side.14.8×266k2.2k258152
16Sep 11, '25To be honest the reaction on X is far preferable to what’s on every other social network and channel right now. It’s weird watching people you know and love say he deserved to be k14.6×263k5k524253
17Feb 7, '25Had a friend who was immediately bullied into a scheduling an abortion by her doctor when he saw first result of scan showing evidence of trisomy. "What are you, religious?" he ask13.2×238k3.3k426310
18Sep 12, '25It’s really hard to explain how high the editorial standards go at these places when negatively characterizing a liberal idea or figure, and how low they go when dealing with the r13×233k3.3k413188
19Sep 23, '24Completely beyond the pale. Didn't we impeach a president for trying to extract partisan political favor from Ukraine ahead of an election?12.3×221k5.1k1.2k137
20Feb 18, '25Actually FDR stripped the UK of all its gold and negotiable reserves before agreeing to Lend Lease. We told them Canada was not suitable as a destination for their monarchy in dist11.8×212k3.1k446522
21Jun 28, '24NYT tomorrow: 51 intel agents confirm that our collective memory of last night was a sophisticated Moscow disinformation plot.11.8×211k4.2k61443
22Dec 8, '24Far from hurting Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation chances, this week’s events prove out her contention a decade ago that Al Qaeda would be the chief beneficiary of regime change in Syr10.5×189k2.2k49476
24Dec 20, '24What a monstrous thing for a car to do.10×180k3.4k28337
25May 15, '25Literally insane that a guy who became slightly anti-left five minutes ago is now anathematizing everyone on the right who doesn’t hold to his version of 1999 liberal-tarianism.10.0×179k2.2k15361
26Sep 12, '25Wait. So the killer’s dad does all the work, then laws enforcement congratulates themselves and each other and heads out for celebratory beers. Are they going to look into this Dis10.0×179k3.2k383113
28Feb 9, '22The pandemic ends when the internal polling says it ends.9.6×020k2.6k56
29Sep 24, '25The idea that Jimmy Kimmel is the chief victim of this era of censorship absolutely defies comprehension.8.9×159k7.2k60474
30Nov 4, '20So many media outlets did these chest-beating essays after 2016 vowing to get to know the country they cover better. And then, they all retreated into Resistance fantasy and ideolo6.8×013k2.1k206
31Aug 13, '23This keeps happening.6.5×117k2.3k23281
32Nov 18, '22Pro-@elonmusk, sorry. I have more faith in an owner cutting drastically ahead of a recession, and innovating on the fly than in a management team that was trying to buy more time u6.3×013k1.5k97
33Mar 16, '25I still can’t get over the power of negative polarization where liberals genuinely convinced themselves that the lab leak was the racist theory of Covid origins, but the “it’s just6.2×111k2.9k451188
34Feb 15, '25Romania annulled an election based on a flimsy suspicion that Russia boosted a candidate on TikTok, and it has subsequently come out that this the boost was in fact of scheme from 5.2×94k2.7k521130
35Oct 13, '21That’s insane. You don’t become a Billionaire by hiding transactions of $600 from scrutiny.4.3×07.8k1.4k70
36Oct 20, '21"In highly vaccinated New England, the hospitalization rate right now for kids under 17 is about 7 per 10 million. That is not a typo." And yet we are still masking 2 year olds.4.0×07.1k1.5k102
37Nov 9, '22Just- all the chatter on my conservative and GOP channels - is rage at Trump like I've never seen. "The one guy he attacked before Election Day was DeSantis- the clear winner, mean3.6×06.4k1k131
38Aug 14, '18However bad you thought the corruption among Catholic clergy and bishops was, the reality is much worse.3.5×03.4k2.1k104
39Feb 24, '22Nice to see CNN almost instantly transforming into its best self. Reporters- not personalities- on the screen, at the site of historical events. More of this.3.5×07.8k52574
40Oct 31, '22We don’t have to go back to the Holodomor to find the NYT publishing fake news. Their story *last year* on the mass graves at Canadian residential schools was completely false. Not3.5×06.4k1.3k155
41Nov 17, '21We're about five days away from progressive Twitter saying that Inflation is a White Supremacist dogwhistle and that this fact should be taught in the completely non-existent CRT m3.1×06.3k84742
42Nov 4, '20The states are doing a horrible job of explaining these 100 percent batches, their delays, and the slowness of counting. Bad election management is dangerous.3.0×06k82438
43Sep 2, '21Just to emphasize this: Joe Rogan didn’t take a horse dewormer and neither did the 90 thousand people or so who were prescribed it by doctors in the last week of August. Saying he 2.9×05.5k84899
44Mar 25, '25A family friend committed suicide last night. I was not close but he was the type whom you met once and then the mention of his name made you smile. A dozen people very dear to me 2.9×51k2.2k9934
45Jun 28, '19Judged just by the answers you’d think illegal immigrants were the swing vote in 2020.2.7×04.7k9829
46Jan 20, '19I guess people at this event learned from their “role models” how to create a hoax powerful enough to get celebrities and intellectuals to fantasize about doing violence to childre2.5×03.9k1.2k66
47Dec 28, '21Here comes the shift!2.5×05.2k54145
48Dec 15, '21After 11 months it may no longer be politically correct to say this on the right, but Trump’s lies about election fraud were the principle cause of the capitol riot. The texts show2.4×03.7k775139
49Dec 31, '17As 2017 closes, I still have a question. Why did that guy shoot hundreds of people in Vegas?2.3×03.7k9281
50Jan 18, '21I still think, in evaluating conspiracy theories, we really underestimate how the pandemic erased people's baseline of normality, and lockdown trapped them inside with social media2.1×04k56857
51Jan 16, '22This is insane.2.0×04.2k41157
52Sep 2, '21It feels like an op to insist on calling this a dewormer when the Nobel winning inventor of it intended it for humans first, and encourages its use for Covid.2.0×03.5k74599
53Apr 15, '21Now that the story would be damaging to Biden, we admit that it was fake.1.9×03k87972
54Jun 3, '17Because they don't leave behind videos dedicating their murders to God. Just a thought.1.8×02.9k8660
55Aug 24, '21If it saves one Boomer’s life, no matter how many newborns die, it will be worth it.1.8×03k69879
56Jan 8, '21After two months, five deaths, and national humiliation he finally commits to a peaceful transition. Too late.1.8×03.3k44734
57Jan 10, '21What measures has Apple taken to make sure it’s contractors don’t use slave labor?1.7×03.1k71627
58Dec 29, '20People say this about Church but not about United Airlines. You have to wonder why.1.7×03.6k40417
59Jun 30, '20View post on X1.7×02.8k68243
60Feb 5, '20Just remember, in an extraordinary gesture Romney argued that Trump was totally unfit for the presidency and then interviewed to be his Secretary of State. These great moral stands1.6×02.7k73413
61Nov 9, '22Remember when the Martha’s Vineyard stunt was going to hurt DeSantis?1.6×03.5k3352
62Nov 2, '21Normally these pictures will be followed up by face photos. lead to fast ID, and a crowdsourced pressure campaign to deprive the subject of their livelihood. Without all that I jus1.6×03.2k42117
63Jun 1, '20The problem with classifying Antifa as a terorist group is that eventually the Pentagon will offer them air support to effect regime change somewhere.1.6×02.9k54127
64Dec 3, '21I see it is "death is better than adoption" day in the media.1.6×03.3k39514
65Mar 9, '20Fine, we’ll call it Kung Flu.1.5×03.1k38321
66Jun 5, '20The NYT is made up of people who make over 6 figures and think Bari Weiss tweets are assault, and complain that policemen who make $42.5k should remain perfectly cool after their r1.5×02.6k67341
67Jul 3, '20She who must not be named.1.5×02.8k47933
68May 9, '22That’s certainly one way to not describe it.1.5×03k33929
69Jun 29, '18He's from Queens. Ocasio-Cortez grew up in Yorktown Heights. Leafy, Westchester.1.5×02.4k6573
70Apr 15, '21We need to have a serious discussion about how disinformation about Russian bounties threatens our democracy. I think the least Twitter and Facebook could do is permanently suspend1.5×02.6k60932
71Sep 26, '21Can someone explain to me why a bunch of modern countries are starting to put out little signals to the public that they may not have energy this winter?1.5×02.6k42096
72Aug 12, '20For reference here’s how they covered the Pence choice1.5×02.1k66688
73Jul 7, '21Siri, what’s the dumbass thing I’m going to see on the internet today that will become my evening’s intrusive thought?1.4×02.9k34052
74Oct 7, '19Somebody tell the NBA they only have single gender bathrooms in China.1.4×02.8k48616
75Jun 2, '19Wait, someone working at Facebook just gave the Daily Beast that guy’s info?1.4×02.3k6084
76May 31, '20I’m sure Vox and The Atlantic can explain the mechanism that transmutes the beating a of a defenseless woman into salutary social reform.1.4×02k65463
77Jul 29, '16Okay. That's what it means to be owned.1.3×02k7530
78Mar 25, '19Good thing this guy never had to make gravely serious life-and-death decisions.1.3×02.6k4007
79Oct 5, '20So the bottom line from Cuomo: schoolchildren and Jews are the problem.1.3×02.4k46721
80Feb 12, '20If you can’t handle a baby crying on a plane like an adult who lives in society, have some self respect and drink yourself into a stupor.1.3×02.9k2107
81Dec 31, '21Breaking the “with Covid not because of Covid” seal. Oh my god. I think they might shift the subject to natural immunity next.1.3×02.3k41460
82Jun 6, '20No harsh tone, overstatement or contested allegations here. Not in my NY Times Opinion Section.1.3×02k46464
83Apr 16, '22Sorry you didn’t go to college and get good debt like liberal arts students. You started a landscaping business and got bad debt for equipment and a truck. So you’ll be taxed to he1.2×02.3k38442
84Oct 27, '20Now with two conservatives on the court, we’re finally getting somewhere.1.2×02.7k18311
85Oct 25, '17What Flake doesn’t get is that Trump’s culture war belligerency is the first time many GOP voters feel the party is doing something for them1.2×01.9k4410
86Nov 19, '20That display by Giuliani and Powell was unhinged, undignified, and came across as a mental breakdown.1.1×02.1k17922
87Oct 28, '20Jack is going to lose control of Twitter just because the public will look at him and listen to him and determine at a gut level that nobody like that should run anything more impo1.1×02.2k31620
88Oct 18, '22Democrats wanted Kari Lake, and now they are going to get her. Pretty funny.1.1×02.4k15618
89Oct 23, '20RIP people whose drinking game included "C'mon."1.1×02.4k2354
90Jun 26, '22Something every vaguely pro-life writer understood decades ago is breaking news to these people.1.1×02.2k32233
91Nov 10, '22DeSantis would be well-advised to say nothing. Just let him rage for a while.1.1×02.5k988
92Nov 19, '21Eh… I think people are forgetting how mainstream it got. Kamala Harris was contributing to bail funds during the riots.1.1×02.1k36431
93Mar 6, '20Coronavirus is an opportunity to learn the lesson that you can't use "the economy" as your sole measure of social well-being and resilience. Delaying sound public health judgements1.1×02k40316
94Apr 1, '20Bill DeBlasio is acting faster to contain Evangelicals than he did to stop the virus.1.1×02.1k3514
95Nov 9, '18Going hard = asking Broward County officials to comply with the law.1.1×01.9k4811
96Dec 28, '21Sounds cute. Show us pictures!1.0×02.2k13511
97May 10, '22View post on X0.9×02k12513
98Dec 9, '20Okay, I take your point and am now grateful for the politicians.0.9×02k14914
99Feb 27Column today: Why did National Populism Disrupt the Right? tl;dr Globalization sets economic integration against national sovereignty and democracy.0.4×7.5k26511

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