PS I’m not on one side or the other here. Class mixing in the suburbs is a good thing but it’s not nothing to screw with people’s hard earned single-family homes. Luckily this is the sort of issue where a reasonable compromise is possible.
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Feb 10, 2023
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February 09, 2023 at 08:58PM
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Here’s one controversial New Progressive Dem policy that Biden’s administration is pursuing that he somehow left out of the SOTU. https://t.co/8ZcCq5rUgU
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Feb 10, 2023
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February 09, 2023 at 08:55PM
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This ‘Stop the commercial!” trick is a brilliant, Wayne Newtonesque excitement-booster. (‘We’re breaking all the rules tonight!’) https://t.co/d8fFNAfMJF
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Feb 9, 2023
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February 09, 2023 at 04:30PM
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Not unusual for two principals to deny something and for the anonymous sources who say otherwise to be right. John Edwards and Rielle Hunter both strongly denied the story that ended his political career, for ex.. https://t.co/s3Z2zMAX2j
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Feb 9, 2023
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February 09, 2023 at 03:55PM
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“The discourse –pretentious, de-clarifying term Chait waves around like a legacy blue check–awaits a better article.
PS: Lind essay is here https://t.co/cz9CVzvF0c 9/
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Feb 9, 2023
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On DEI (“affirmative action on LSD” says Lind)–well you hear enough anecdotes to think that all of college life and half of corporate life are driven by DEI obsessions. Is that true? Would be good to have a clear-eyed report. It sure seems to be what college profs talk about./8
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Feb 9, 2023
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he has “serious criticisms of the left-wing line on youth gender transition,” so maybe he can join Lind’s coalition on one of its three big issues. On greenism, it’s clear formal electrificaion goals are v-ambitious–and if you live in CA “densification” is now state law. 7/
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Feb 9, 2023
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On the key question-do the parts of “radical” progressivism (“the Green Project, the Quota Project, and the Androgyny Project”) have enough actual traction to be a real political threat-I don’t know. Chait admits … 6/
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Feb 9, 2023
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It’s not even clear Lind is talking about a political party that runs candidates in elections (a misreading I also instinctively committed at first). His bipartisan coalition could be an organization like the Committee for the Free World or People for the American Way. 4/
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Feb 9, 2023
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Its goal would be not to boost GOPs but “break the power of the new utopian progressivism…within the Democratic Party.” Chait doesn’t grapple with these non-subtleties. He blasts Lind for criticizing a threat that doesn’t exist while he criticizes an essay that doesn’t exist 5/
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Feb 9, 2023
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He doesn’t call for anyone to vote Republican, for example. (That seems a BS charge Chait invents because it makes his piece so much easier.) What Lind calls for is “the largest possible anti-progressive front” that includes “Democrats as well as Republicans and independents.” 3/
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Feb 9, 2023
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Chait sees everything as Biden vs. GOP. He says Lind “insists” that “one must vote Republican,” and wastes several grafs arguing that even if you don’t like Democrats, Republicans are worse. But Lind isn’t talking about Biden vs. GOP or any particular election. 2/
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Feb 9, 2023
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Thread: It’s a good question whether the “utopian politics” of the “radicalized center left” that Michael Lind declares his enemy is a chimera or a real force in people’s lives. But don’t look to @jonathanchait for a fair assessment. https://t.co/5uCIG0OzH3 1/
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Feb 9, 2023
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I mean, I thought that *can’t* be the best picture they could find of me. But it was …
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 08, 2023 at 03:26PM
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Enjoyable discussion. Her dirty little secret (she’s a word snob) revealed. I need a haircut. https://t.co/DTTAuAXTcf
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 08, 2023 at 03:25PM
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Solution to Biden vulnerabilities of border surge and “ultra-wokeism” charge? Barely touch on either of them.
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 07, 2023 at 11:15PM
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Poor Biden speechwriters. They do a good job on a speech and Meacham gets the credit (on CBS, at least).
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 07, 2023 at 10:43PM
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About as appealing as Biden is going to get. Maybe he should retire while he’s on top!
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 07, 2023 at 10:40PM
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Biden’s still for resurrecting welfare (the “refundable child tax credit”) and amnesty (for “essential workers,” which could be almost anybody). But overall an effective, old Democrat-style speech. Initial section on industrial policy was especially appealing, if not non-Trumpy
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 07, 2023 at 10:37PM
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Now that Biden has–somewhat skillfully– settled the Medicare & Social Security isssue, what will Democrats campaign on?
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 07, 2023 at 10:30PM
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I thought the heckling helped Biden, especially when he listened and responded coherently. Like UK question time. (MSM of course folding it into their “crazy Republicans” narrative.)
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 07, 2023 at 10:28PM
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SOTU: I would think a lot of world leaders would change places with Xi …
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Feb 8, 2023
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SOTU: Biden’s American Carnage talk wil go down better with the press than Trump’s. Unclear what the distinction is. Both presidents see the same problem and are pursuing similar solutions, no?–eg on trade.
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Feb 8, 2023
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February 07, 2023 at 09:33PM
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Impressive den mother “added context'”by @Twitter, which reads like PR damage control (whether it is or not) and seems to assume we’ll just accept its authority. You could see how this sort of thing could get out of control, @elonmusk! Maybe it already has. https://t.co/HkRKYymaz2
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Feb 7, 2023
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February 07, 2023 at 05:44PM
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The Online Trump-DeSantis Feud Explained https://t.co/HznmHWbrfc
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Feb 7, 2023
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