Mike Duncan@mikeduncan
My "fascism and Nazism are not identical" shirt has a lot of people wondering what kind of fascist I am.
The American Conservative @amconmag
NEW: "The antifascist left smears their 'fascist' opponents with the Nazi and anti-Semitic label. However, fascism and Nazism are not identical." https://t.co/RyVJCfKYtc
11:47 PM · Nov 20, 2021
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ryan cooper@ryanlcooper
these people have been socialized to think they are progressive, but this is just ordinary dim, muleheaded libertarianism that is America's background radiation
10:31 PM · Nov 20, 2021
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Max Boot@MaxBoot
.@CarlosLozadaWP exposes the intellectual muddle—and the radical political agenda—at the heart of the 1619 Project. An important essay.
washingtonpost.com
Review | The 1619 Project started as history. Now it’s also a political program.
1:40 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It is great for people to learn the history of racial covenants in shaping American cities, but I hate that these stories tend to devolve into symbolic efforts to expunge now-unenforceable covenants rather than talk about *present-day* legal barriers.
npr.org
Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country
1:30 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
After the discrediting of capitalism by the Great Recession & the ferment of Bernie 2016 and the rise of the Squad etc we're still in a place where there is no mass politics in favor broad-based taxation to create universalistic welfare state programs.
slowboring.com/p/european-cou…
3:40 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
I mean, Trump wasn't that far from winning last time. And while they aren't worth a ton at this stage, polls show Trump in a highly competitive hypothetical 2024 matchup vs. Biden given his deteriorated standing, and generally ahead of Harris.
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/presiden…
curtmills @CurtMills
seems significant that the Lincoln Project is openly rooting for/working to make Trump the 2024 GOP nominee https://t.co/0u59YH96rG
3:58 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Doesn’t this sound like someplace Elrond warns you not to go? https://t.co/y0NM6RzHRC
The New Yorker @NewYorker
With winter approaching, America is entering another precarious moment in the coronavirus pandemic. Molnupiravir, a new antiviral pill, may be arriving just when we need it. https://t.co/RKvkV0Apnf
5:17 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Don’t ever tell me this isn’t a great country
5:52 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I always just wonder what is the point, philosophically, of asking questions that you know the interview subject isn’t going to give a real answer to?
Meet the Press @MeetThePress
WATCH: Sec. Buttigieg says his relationship with VP Kamala Harris isn’t affected by reports of rivalry: “She and I are part of a team that is disciplined.”
@SecretaryPete: “There’s no room to get caught up in the parlor games and I’m proud to be part of the Biden-Harris team.” https://t.co/I8iyyclXCt
6:53 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Eli 🤠@meltingpotlover
1:14 AM · Nov 21, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
In America, when a woman calls out a powerful man for sexual harassment, he often suffers serious professional consequences.
In China, it appears, she gets abducted and threatened into publicly recanting.
Bloomberg Next China @next_china
After weeks out of the public’s eye, Chinese sports star Peng Shuai held a 30-minute call with the International Olympic Committee where she assured the group’s President Thomas Bach that she’s safe https://t.co/UBt0mPmHpi
7:26 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I’m going to make “the New York Times is a good newspaper” one of my signature Contrarian Takes along with “police presence reduces crime,” “talking about unpopular ideas makes it harder to win elections,” and “supply and demand applies to the housing market.”
8:31 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
My take on this (which leftists won’t like) is that the actual problem here is “the moderate Biden wing” *itself* has moved too far left on tons of issues relative to where Obama was, and moderates express this by complaining about the Squad which doesn’t add up. https://t.co/vIkMjFuUYK
Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach
It’s strange—the moderate Biden wing leads the party, vocally opposes defund, condemns property damage in protests, pursues Bidenist legislation, excludes the AOC wing in campaigning, and then still blame them for the party’s popularity problems. Seems weird. https://t.co/965atbLqcL
9:35 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert
@mattyglesias So they had to be popularist within the Democratic party (so as not to lose power) and that made them less popularist among the electorate as a whole
I think it's true that it's difficult to make a party become all-out popularist (cf. tha Blairism became unpopular within Labour)
9:45 PM · Nov 21, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think this captures what is frustrating to me about this increasingly pointless dialogue — we are saying Democrats should do something *different* but the people on the other side of the argument keep insisting we’re saying they should do the same thing.
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
Mystified by the discourse around “popularism” as if that isn’t how the vast majority of Democratic campaigns are already run.
Consultants are paid a lot of money to polls a variety of pithy phrases. Candidate then repeats the ones that poll best in ads, direct mail, events.
12:40 AM · Nov 22, 2021
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Sasha Perigo@sashaperigo
This made me tear up. Rest In Peace, Courtney. https://t.co/J2VnyfGDhA
sarah abdeshahian (سارا) @SAbdeshahian
newest addition to dolores park #loveforcourtney https://t.co/N8LlVBTMhM
12:17 AM · Nov 22, 2021
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