Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The whole idea in the 1950s was to sweep in and concede that, yes, the most crude racists of the white south were sort of wrong and bad. But the legal regime they’d created was worth defending anyway on instrumental grounds of rolling back the New Deal. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@MattZeitlin There was a 5-10 year stretch when the national conservative message on economics was about opposing “crony capitalism” and it had zero impact on actual public policy. — PolitiTweet.org