This column inadvertently offers insight into the self-absorbed & status-obsessed conservative mindset.
Every parent has moments where they must will themselves to be a good parent. Conservatives do it to feel smugly superior; the rest of us do it for our children.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/o...
If you ever catch yourself thinking this way about other peoples' parenting, check yourself.
If you write about it for public consumption, you're a scumbag.
This is the part that got me, for two reasons:
1) This is textbook virtue signaling, from someone who constantly complains about that.
2) Hard to think of anything more shallow than pretending to be a good parent *not* because you'll then be a good parent for your kids, but to impress strangers.
