Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

These debates carried enormous emotional and rhetorical heat — Obama called it “the civil rights issue of our time” — and my argument is a lot of today’s politics play out in what amounts to a toxic fallout zone left behind by these fights. https://t.co/GUBUEqCQRP https://t.co/IfQ5C43E8p — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 7, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Education reform stood apart from traditional conservative emphasis on budget-cutting and splintered the Democratic Party coalition by tackling teacher union sacred cows. It had the support of Obama & George W Bush and then it petered out. https://t.co/GUBUEqCQRP — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 7, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The first post in the series just tries to reconstruct what was this fight about — what were the management changes people fought over and how did something so technical come to be such a hot button topic and then vanish without a trace? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 7, 2023