No, I think telling people what to do is better than telling them how to feel

Are there people who aren't worrying who should be? Absolutely, but I don't think many take their cues from Ezra Klein. Telling people to worry is also not a great form of political mobilization. On its own it fixes nothing, and often it makes people feel too much despair to act.

What's messed up is framing a set of issues many of which are supported by the majority of Americans as identitarian voter constituencies ("special interests") individually competing for the favor of the party, like Dems can only be for one popular thing at a time.

It's called kettle logic.

Focusing on details is famously inefficient

I.e. We drastically overestimate how informed about Important Things we have to be before we take action

You do not put out a wildfire by counting how many houses it has burned.

As an American, the thing my education completely failed to prepare me for was the workplace expectation that you must never do a good job or tell the truth if doing so would jeopardize the feelings of people more powerful than you.

Is the Center a part or a whorl?