Ed Rogers is not the worst columnist in America. Neither is Jonathan Chait. But what Chait is mad about here is that the Post gives a platform to someone who dares support President Trump in print
And The Award for Worst Columnist In America Goes To …
Most political junkies have a list in their heads of the best op-ed columnists in the business. But who are the worst?
According to Jonathan Chait, who has cranked out his share of op-ed columns for the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect and the New Republic, it’s Ed Rogers.
“For reasons I have never been able to discern,” Chait wrote in The New Yorker, Rogers, a lobbyist, former congressional and White House aid and law professor, writes a regular op-ed column for the Washington Post.
Indeed, Rogers’ profession is the first of the “fatal deficiencies” Chait finds with Rogers’ work. Rogers, Chait writes, is “the founding member of a lobbying firm with a wide-ranging portfolio and a presumably enormous income,” so “literally everything he writes suffers from crippling conflicts of interest.”