Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If you admit that your enemies are fallible and have weak spots while your side has important reservoirs of strength, then it’s incumbent on you and your allies to do your best — winning and losing is genuinely in your hands. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 8, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A common thing on here is for people to vocalize dramatic overestimates of the awesome power of their political opponents — it strikes me as a kind of pathological fear of failure and flight from responsibility. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 8, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But if the opposition controls all the levers of power and you’re just a lonely voice in the wilderness then there’s no level of self-indulgence that goes too far, no trade-offs between expression and impact. The battle’s already lost, you’re just here to tell the story. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 8, 2023