Matthew Yglesias

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Republicans never do public-facing communication about their desire to cut taxes for the rich, but the elements of the base that want tax cuts remain confident that it is on the agenda. Issue X advocates would lose their shit if Dems just stopped talking about their cause. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a little bit exacerbated by the fact that Dem-aligned groups don't seem to like the idea of hashing things out behind closed doors, and often want politicians to use earned media in order to do coalition management. — PolitiTweet.org

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A related point is that one reason the ads are good is that since ad buys are expensive, you work hard to optimize. But it's not in the interests of the people who do that work to be clear about the small effect size and the need to apply the same insights elsewhere. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think there's relatively little actual disagreement about what kind of character it makes sense to play in ads, but a lot of genuine disagreement about whether it's helpful or useful to play that same character in TV hits, on social media, in legislative strategy, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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But to me, if you look at what's in Dem ads, it reflects a lot of very sound political judgment. The challenge is to take that exact same judgment and discipline and port it over to the rest of the public facing communications that defines the brand. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is a more interesting debate than "popularism." I think most of the Dem ecosystem thinks the real campaign — where you need to be smart, tough-minded, and disciplined — is what happens in campaign ads. I think that's wrong, and ads are marginal compared to your free comms. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Deep dish is tasty, but I've never had a *really great* deep dish — maybe I just haven't been to the right spot or maybe I just don't like it as much. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pizza is tasty. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonathanchait: I may be a ravenous lunatic, but I am not a neoconservative — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @POTUS: Congressional Republicans want abortion to be illegal. But let me tell you something: As long as I’m president, I will veto any… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @xenocryptsite: It's so interesting how both parties have activists who honestly have complete mirror image empirical views of politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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Really outrageous attack on free speech https://t.co/vFqqCRx1bf — PolitiTweet.org

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And let’s remember that if you’re not bungling demand-side policy, then labor supply is good not bad — the goal is high *real* wages not nominal. https://t.co/CozPzYdRtQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Let’s make it easier to get permits to build houses https://t.co/28FxNsbTb2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Let’s increase the supply of doctors and other medical professionals https://t.co/TTEoLe3IZV — PolitiTweet.org

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Let’s make clean energy deployment easier https://t.co/wvpyYGjYbN — PolitiTweet.org

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But then to power additional growth in the context of a full employment economy, we need the full panoply of supply-side reforms. https://t.co/xEv2SGBQ61 — PolitiTweet.org

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Core inflation seems to be calming, the Fed is raising rates, the war on inflation can be won. Fiscal policy can help with legislation that taxes the rich and reduces the deficit — it sounds like senate Dems are getting close on this. https://t.co/pXk8ZsQuDP — PolitiTweet.org

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Nobody likes inflation and there’s more that can and should be done to address it, but having a robust fiscal and monetary response offers some very real advantages compared to what we saw in previous downturns. — PolitiTweet.org

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It does seem pretty extreme — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kristoncapps: My favorite paintings by Sam Gilliam are the ones you can find just by living in D.C. Not the museums on the Mall, I mean… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @glassmanamanda: We could have universal #COVID #vaccines very soon — if we urgently reform the process -"Pan-variant vaccines are a $1… — PolitiTweet.org

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@GagnonMacro I guess that’s what I’m asking … if we manage to get core inflation heading downward without a recession would it make sense to provoke one in order to accelerate that? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Guy who believes it’s going to get so hot humanity will go extinct but won’t try moving to Buffalo where it’s colder. https://t.co/OfzJNJFnpg — PolitiTweet.org

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There used to be a fair amount of support for raising the inflation target to 3 or 4 percent. Now there’s a sentiment Powell can’t do this because of “credibility” but FAIT is already totally shot (right?) so I’m not sure what the credibility stakes are exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

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I would try to make emissions lower rather than higher. — PolitiTweet.org

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The people who make the salads at Sweetgreen haven't de-skilled at salad-making, but the stuff that goes into the salads has become scarcer which reduces the productivity of their efforts. — PolitiTweet.org

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Wouldn't commodity scarcity mechanically reduce labor productivity and thus explain how GDP can go down while employment rises? — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen @AstorAaron The fact that they are trying to fly the planes from home could explain a lot of problems. — PolitiTweet.org

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The problem with the idea that NIMBYism will help Democrats achieve a more efficient geographical distribution is that the people filtered-out of high cost areas are disproportionately conservative (non-college folks with kids). — PolitiTweet.org