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Last Checked Feb. 15, 2023

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Wed Sep 07 12:04:29 +0000 2022

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The idea is to feed people enough culture war chum to undermine electoral accountability, and then you can do hard-right economics insulted from voter backlash. https://t.co/bfGtM4S9cc https://t.co/ovNjCRIrJZ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 7, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Yes exactly. And this is Thiel’s key idea too — the plutocracy is the point. — PolitiTweet.org

Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait

@mattyglesias DeSantis wrote an entire book arguing that democracy is bad because it allows the majority to redistr… https://t.co/snyhuuue6p

Posted Sept. 7, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The biggest problem facing low-income Californians by far is decades of bad housing policy. Newsom, to his credit, has signed multiple pieces of deregulatory legislation to try to improve things. By the same token DeSantis should expand Medicaid. — PolitiTweet.org

Pradheep J. Shanker @Neoavatara

Its just a matter of time before the Left calls DeSantis worse than Trump. For the record...poor people are doing… https://t.co/gcJZuEgCr7

Posted Sept. 7, 2022 Hibernated

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