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I wrote this on Twitter in response. He didn't appreciate it. "Matt gives hope to all intellectual mediocrities around the world that if you have successful parents and promote corporate centrist ideas, you too can become very wealthy. Shamelessness and 0 reflection are sadly required as well."

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If that take is truly earnest, then it is also profoundly naive. But I suspect both the earnestness and the naivete are naught but a show.

As long as he is platformed on TV and podcasts, he will continue to milk his role for all it's worth. A corporate "centrist" telling the "middle" what they want to hear. He's a tool but is well rewarded for it. Just another disgusting snake in the grass. Well no, that disparages snakes....

A good response. I am starting to suspect that guys like Yglesias and their outsized presence in the media and the consultant class is one of the key reasons the Democratic party fell into the hole it's trying to dig out of.

Uh, why the hell not? There's a million good reasons why we should be interested in good government in other countries and "root for" the parties that offer it. And even more reasons to root against opposing murderous, fascistic, kletptocratic parties/candidates. Wake up man, where are you living?