Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think a big problem in contemporary politics is that leftists greatly overrate *betrayal* relative to *objective difficulty* as an impediment to progress, but there’s also not zero betrayal so the breakdown of trust is partially warranted. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 24, 2019 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A Single-payer health care is a good idea. B The most politically palatable way of achieving it is through a buy-in mechanism. C Total breakdown of trust internal to progressive politics leads to a perverse outcome where (B) is not-implausibly read as disagreement with (A). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 24, 2019 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is a cool chart from @davidautor, but to make a slightly different point about it today’s rural areas are better-educated than the big cities of 1970 — the educational profile of the country is just dramatically changed. https://t.co/ralEvxIzUf https://t.co/ralEvxIzUf https://t.co/8g0b8aoeXU — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 24, 2019 Hibernated