Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think this mostly shows that having good judgment about how real world events will play out in the future is really valuable. Politicians also seem to struggle with it — ARRA too small, ARP too big — governing is hard. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 7, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

By the same token, if Hillary Clinton had been clairvoyant about the actual course of the war then the obvious politically expedient move would have been to vote “no” on the AUMF. She’d have won in 2008! But she wasn’t clairvoyant. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 7, 2022 Hibernated

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So I don’t ultimately think this tells us much about the merits of a principled stand versus an opportunistic one so much as it tells us that answering factual questions accurately is both hard and important. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 7, 2022 Hibernated