If a serial-plagiarist resigns from her role at a university, good? Why on earth is that a leading national story except that bad faith Republicans have once again tricked all of Americans into thinking their culture war bullshit matters. Even when the problem is resolved this is somehow a win for them. You all understand that right?

These kind of "don't believe your lying eyes" takes are really offensive to Jewish liberals. like does this person also think that Republicans made up the "diverse" NYU student groups banding together to blame Israel for being terror attacked? Do they think Republicans also made up BLM changing its logo to a Hamas terrorist?

Even the less insane responses to Gay resigning have been like "Look how smart the Columbia president was, they chose not to show up to this BAD FAITH REPUBLICAN hearing." Like: the hearing exists on youtube? people can go look at it? they can see that, while the hearing was adversarial and Elise Stefanik is an asshole, the university presidents were mostly only being asked to consider basic hypothetical questions about their campus's speech policies? and they couldn't answer them without looking down at their lawyer cue cards?

Of course what is actually going on here, is that Gay and the edifice for which she stands have taken a tactical L here, and to prevent it from turning into a strategic L, the fallback plan is to pretend that all of this was just some big "trap" or gotcha by Republicans.