He sees what they did to both Clintons.
The Times’ brass’ duplicitous attempts to defend their lopsided false equivalences–by which they attach as much weight to lies as to truth, just so there are an equal number of positive and negative stories on each side–is disturbing. It is impelling them to trigger the return to office of a tyrant who will try to crush them. A lot of self-hatred as well as arrogance here, but don’t the two usually go hand in hand?
And it all goes back to The Beautiful People.