Favorite Rejects 2021-11-19
Competition from Amazon reduces employment at big box chains, but *raises* employment at other brick and mortar retail.
Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac
A little late on this @PodSaveAmerica ep, & I'm so glad that Danica Roem is still in the House of Delegates, but I'm not sure her experience is most clarifying for helping Dems survive a hard election. She underperformed Biden the 2nd most out of all contested seats (HD13 in red)
Jon Favreau @jonfavs
positioning leftists against SALT exemptions is the most brilliant republican jiu-jitsu in a generation
The bug in how the leftwing tilt of both the Dem staffer class and the media interacts with practical politics, is that both the NYT and Hill Democrats probably see this "largest expenditure" framing as friendly boosterism, when they'd be better off with a moderateframing.
If you interact as a journalist with Dem staffers, either on the Hill or in primary campaigns, it's obvious that they actively seek and value coverage that frames their proposals as "bold," "sweeping," or "historic" rather more electorally friendly ones framing them as moderate.
But all these Vox articles framing various Democratic initiatives as "sweeping" are meant to be favorable — and are seen as such by the Democrats on the Hill.
Moderate framings, when they happen, usually occur in pieces criticizing Dem timidity rather than praising it.
I had hoped this number would be orders of magnitude higher. The fact that we're not admitting Afghan refugees even under Biden shows how dramatically America has turned against immigration.
Catherine Rampell @crampell
@BeijingPalmer Yup. And now realize that Republicans don't pay attention to pro-immigration opinion when they are in office, but Dems pretty much always pay attention to anti-immigration opinion when they are in office.
One of the most important turning points in my career was hosting a DC poker game in 2004-5 that counted @mattyglesias as a regular guest. I met @ezraklein through Matt and a decade later that helped me get a job at the @washingtonpost and then @voxdotcom.
Ugh. A couple years ago Ethiopia was a development star. Now this.
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage
Of course despite this, I predict that the Right will continue to claim that Biden tried to interfere in the trial and get Rittenhouse convicted.
Katie Rogers @katierogers
And now for another episode of "Intellectual libertarian discovers who the actual broad constituency for libertarianism is comprised of"... 😅
Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk
