to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy

so the "leftist" position here is that if the ICE thug tries to intimidate you, you walk away with your head down like charlie brown? is that it?

I feel like it has the same target audience as the bit about water pressure in shower heads

And what we've done is create communities of belief where saying "Slow down, is this true?" is perceived as an act of betrayal. The vast majority of people in those communities will instead indulge you: tell you that the things you always suspected, and feel correct, are in fact correct.

not op but I imagine they're referring to Josh Marshall

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/with-...

Perfect summation of how he uses tariffs as well. You called it months before liberation day

He's not trying to "reshore American manufacturing." He's trying to extort companies and trading partners.

“but we should cut pay for these overpaid politician fat cats” is the easiest and cheapest attack line in the world and it’s enormously counterproductive because it ensures that these positions get filled by actual fat cats who don’t need the money