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Centrism a la Michael Bennett can stay. Centrism a la Golden/Sinema/Starmer/Macron needs to die.
November 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Centrism a la Michael Bennett can stay. Centrism a la Golden/Sinema/Starmer/Macron needs to die.
Yeah. Carter & Clinton passed voting rights laws. They tried (& failed thanks to the filibuste) under Biden. Didn‘t even try under Obama. Shameful.
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Yeah. Carter & Clinton passed voting rights laws. They tried (& failed thanks to the filibuste) under Biden. Didn‘t even try under Obama. Shameful.
I am assuming w/the above it’s Hillary & Dem Senate & GOP House. She enters w/a trifecta & I can easily see her getting a 1998 or 2022 midterm.
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I am assuming w/the above it’s Hillary & Dem Senate & GOP House. She enters w/a trifecta & I can easily see her getting a 1998 or 2022 midterm.
The whole federal judiciary would have been transformed & foreign policy & nuclear disarmament & climate policy would have been so much better!!!
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The whole federal judiciary would have been transformed & foreign policy & nuclear disarmament & climate policy would have been so much better!!!
Not saying Hillary’s midterm wouldn’t have been like either of Obama’s or Bill’s first, but way too many variables to predict.
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Not saying Hillary’s midterm wouldn’t have been like either of Obama’s or Bill’s first, but way too many variables to predict.
I legit question that. Trump was in positive approval in 2017 remember! Would Hillary have behaved in such a way to decline like Trump did? Part of why people hated Trump was his erratic foreign policy. She wouldn’t have performed his idiocy w/Iran & N. Korea. She also had huge EO plans.
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I legit question that. Trump was in positive approval in 2017 remember! Would Hillary have behaved in such a way to decline like Trump did? Part of why people hated Trump was his erratic foreign policy. She wouldn’t have performed his idiocy w/Iran & N. Korea. She also had huge EO plans.
Tell me more about this budget. her refusal to raise taxes on the rich And her handling of the public renewal act has irritated me, but if she’s changing course on this stuff too…
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Tell me more about this budget. her refusal to raise taxes on the rich And her handling of the public renewal act has irritated me, but if she’s changing course on this stuff too…
I think you’re being way too kind of her here! I really hope she loses her primary. However, I would agree she’s become way less worthless.
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I think you’re being way too kind of her here! I really hope she loses her primary. However, I would agree she’s become way less worthless.
I actually think Klein is a much more good faith actor than Ygglesias here! He was still deeply profoundly wrong about Charlie Kirk, but I respect him still. He’s got a moral core Yglesias has lost.
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I actually think Klein is a much more good faith actor than Ygglesias here! He was still deeply profoundly wrong about Charlie Kirk, but I respect him still. He’s got a moral core Yglesias has lost.
I have said for 3 yrs, Newsom is lucky she exists… she makes him look good by comparison.
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I have said for 3 yrs, Newsom is lucky she exists… she makes him look good by comparison.
It’s sad. A decade ago I really liked and respected him, but now he’s primarily a troll. He’s still educated and smart but his overriding impulse now is trolling rather than a quest for truth. He’s a centrist Branko Marcetic
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It’s sad. A decade ago I really liked and respected him, but now he’s primarily a troll. He’s still educated and smart but his overriding impulse now is trolling rather than a quest for truth. He’s a centrist Branko Marcetic
Pritzker is Jewish not Christian, but otherwise I agree with you.
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Pritzker is Jewish not Christian, but otherwise I agree with you.
Indeed. We have two opposite forces. Smaller families means more money to spend on healthcare, food, luxury goods, AND housing BUT the fact that more Americans are (& want to) living alone rather than w/roommates or family means there's more pressure on housing market.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Indeed. We have two opposite forces. Smaller families means more money to spend on healthcare, food, luxury goods, AND housing BUT the fact that more Americans are (& want to) living alone rather than w/roommates or family means there's more pressure on housing market.
Zoning laws in so many American cities are quite bad!
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Zoning laws in so many American cities are quite bad!
He’s so consistently good on foreign policy and so lame on domestic. He’s lucky Warner exists to make him look good by comparison.
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
He’s so consistently good on foreign policy and so lame on domestic. He’s lucky Warner exists to make him look good by comparison.
This is a great comparison! I would add though that there’s another vital thing missing from this analysi—people! American families are much smaller today than 2000 and were smaller in 2000 than 1980.
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This is a great comparison! I would add though that there’s another vital thing missing from this analysi—people! American families are much smaller today than 2000 and were smaller in 2000 than 1980.
indeed. In some places supply is a real problem. In others the problem is not supply of houses per se but the kind of houses supplied. Will’s general point is correct, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t serious problems that need solving by the state since market forces ain’t doing it.
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
indeed. In some places supply is a real problem. In others the problem is not supply of houses per se but the kind of houses supplied. Will’s general point is correct, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t serious problems that need solving by the state since market forces ain’t doing it.
Bring back Bidenism and then go further to Warren & Bernie on economics and bring back Hillary Clinton’s immigration policy!
I hope Starmer is booted out soon.
I hope Starmer is booted out soon.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Bring back Bidenism and then go further to Warren & Bernie on economics and bring back Hillary Clinton’s immigration policy!
I hope Starmer is booted out soon.
I hope Starmer is booted out soon.
After the 2024 election was briefly of the mindset that Dems needed to return to Bill Clinton & Obama conservativisn on economics & civil rights rather than the more robust economic progressivism of Hillary & Biden, but US events & the parallel experience of Starmer have made me abandon that idea
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
After the 2024 election was briefly of the mindset that Dems needed to return to Bill Clinton & Obama conservativisn on economics & civil rights rather than the more robust economic progressivism of Hillary & Biden, but US events & the parallel experience of Starmer have made me abandon that idea
And why is that? Americans keep building and wanting bigger and bigger houses!
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
And why is that? Americans keep building and wanting bigger and bigger houses!
AC, multip TVs, cars, washers & dryers are the most obvious examples where your average American has far more than your average European or East Asian ie our industrial democratic peers.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
AC, multip TVs, cars, washers & dryers are the most obvious examples where your average American has far more than your average European or East Asian ie our industrial democratic peers.
some cities absolutely have true housing crises, no question. But Americans also keep wanting more and bigger & that’s a problem.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
some cities absolutely have true housing crises, no question. But Americans also keep wanting more and bigger & that’s a problem.
This is so weird… She literally used to be my example of the worst democratic governor aka Newsom was lucky she existed so he wasn’t my most hated Dem governor. However, in 2025… She keeps not being terrible…?!
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This is so weird… She literally used to be my example of the worst democratic governor aka Newsom was lucky she existed so he wasn’t my most hated Dem governor. However, in 2025… She keeps not being terrible…?!
Shapiro does kinda suck.
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Shapiro does kinda suck.