Imagine for one second if the NYT marshaled its massive influence towards voter registration, towards supporting voting rights groups, towards encouraging people to vote and fighting people who try to stop people from voting.
Imagine if the NYT actually championed participatory democracy.
I am highly suspicious of people who tell others not to vote. If a person doesn’t want to vote, that’s their personal choice but to encourage others to opt out is shady as hell.
Sorry, imagining the NYT championing participatory democracy is just too difficult. Easier to imagine that Santa Claus is real or this actually is Discworld.