Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Forty years ago when the US was a huge net oil importer and our top national security priority was competition with the oil-rich USSR, then preventing the domination of the Middle East by Soviet-aligned states was a reasonable thing to worry about. Everything is different now. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@chrislhayes The extremely low substantive stakes raises the question of why Democratic Party candidates for office, especially those running in right-of-center states, are so averse to making any efforts to cater to these sensibilities. — PolitiTweet.org