In this episode, I reference a tweet by Jessica Riedl of the Manhattan Institute, so here’s that tweet.
Democrats Could Build a Message Around Competence if We Didn’t Have DEI Stink on Us
Much of the conversation on the left has already become: “Yep, orange man bad — so, how do we beat him?” This makes sense because, first: Orange man very bad. He’s bad enough that “orange man bad” takes are boring — they’re similar to “Earth very round” takes or “salt somewhat salty”. Chronicling Trump’s misdeeds is like tracking the precise movements of an entire colony of bees, it’s a project for the obsessive and insane, so I’d rather take “it’s bad to have a borderline-retarded person running the country” as a given and focus on solutions.
How Did Blocking Stuff Become Left-Coded?
There seems to be a very measured, reasonable riot brewing among us technocratic center-left types: We’re fed up with low-benefit procedural roadblocks holding up housing, green energy, and infrastructure. Ezra Klein’s glasses seem to be fogged up with rage. Pollster Lakshya Jain had a
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