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A contributing opinion writer for The New York Times was fired from his think tank job Thursday over a tweet that jokingly suggested former Vice President Mike Pence be lynched in order to unify the country.

He also said that conservatives really didn’t believe in Biden’s call for unity because they didn’t like Biden’s policy proposals. “Aha! Biden proposes policies I dislike. HIS CALL FOR UNITY IS A LIE!!!” is all the forlorn conservative mind can seem to muster. Sad.” Of course, that’s nonsense. Folks on the right don’t believe Biden’s call for unity because he and his buddies on the left turn around in the next moment, demonize Trump supporters, talk about going after people ...

A contributing opinion writer for The New York Times was fired from his think tank job Thursday over a tweet that jokingly suggested former Vice President Mike Pence be lynched in order to unify the country.  Now-former Niskanen Center Vice President for Research Will Wilkinson raised eyebrows Wednesday night when he offered some tongue-in-cheek advice for President Biden following his inaugural address call for unity. "If Biden really wanted unity, hed lynch Mike Pence," Wilkinson twe...

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Don’t Fire People for Dumb Tweets The Niskanen Center bowed to fake outrage from bad-faith right-wing trolls when it fired Will Wilkinson. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On Wednesday, Will Wilkinson, a New York Times contributor and vice president at the center-right think tank the Niskanen Center made a joke on Twitter. “If Biden really wanted unity,” he tweeted, “he’d lynch Mike Pence.” The joke has been called “bad” and “offensive” an innumerable number of times since. W...

Neither the Niskanen Center nor the New York Times responded to The Federalist’s questions about if Wilkinson’s comments affected his positions in their organizations. While Wilkinson later returned to Twitter to explain the post, claiming it was “sharp sarcasm” and meant as a joke, the executive has a history of downplaying left-wing violence. https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1352286093065007106?s=20 https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1352288432379326477?s=20 Just last we...

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People will believe that if the presidents re-elected its not legitimate, but not just that republicans as a party are not legitimate. definitely worth a read. will wilkinson, thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks for having me. as we await the presidents news conference in a few the moments, big developments in the impeachant inquiry including democrats mounting pressure on the white house and the president increasingly rattled, that is clear and an urgent briefing on capitol hill involving...