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
Why Did the Groups Change?
Much of the dialogue on the left right now is about “The Groups” — left-leaning Washington nonprofits — and how they pushed the Biden administration left and then called it a racist failure anyway. Matt Yglesias, Adam Jentleson, and Ezra Klein have given their accounts of what happened, and I think those accounts are largely correct. I had first hand experience with the dynamic they describe, as I held the post of Lowest-Ranking Member of the Obama Administration
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