Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

You get a lot of this where people are taking reasonable views (we should have less incarceration and it should be less cruel) then dressing them up with radicalism (abolish prison!) but then immediately retreating from tough cases. — PolitiTweet.org

The cognitive dissonance is the point https://t.co/jpwGN6HIlE

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Welfare reform happened in the context of the austerity oriented budget deals of 1990 and 1993 so there was no political appetite to fix the program by making it more generous. In today's more generous context we can fight poverty without undermining work in the same way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cascamike I mean I'm sure they read it, it would be weird to just ignore and it's not that long. — PolitiTweet.org

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