Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The biggest electoral danger to Republicans by far is that they will talk openly about widely held Republican Party economic policy ideas. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

How getting Covid has changed my views https://t.co/cJ67B0pTkF https://t.co/ZZ3OEs6AV7 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MuseZack @nandorvila Oh cool! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lxeagle17: Unironically think Biden's staff should stop being so afraid he'll mess up in public and let him just shoot from the hip! He… — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlecMacGillis @haroldpollack I mean that’s the neighborhood I grew up in and it seems surreal — PolitiTweet.org

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Doing Hard to Kill on the Rewatchables instead of Under Siege is criminal. — PolitiTweet.org

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The truth is it would be cool to see a James Cameron “Aquaman” movie. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanchait @jbarro @perrybaconjr The Perry Bacon Contract With America was strikingly moderate — I think peace in our time may have arrived. https://t.co/xRpqD2AYxO — PolitiTweet.org

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People have started using "reactionary" as a synonym for "reactive" and I don't like it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lennybronner But how does this compare to past races? To my eye it seems much less polarized than Bowser/Gray or Gray/Fenty. Would love to see the Post dig into the evolution. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PopulismUpdates: The cultural gap in America is pretty much unsustainable at this point. You will never convince the urbanite "woke" hi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Because Covid and boredom have reduced my brain to mush, I’ve been rewatching Entourage and … that was a very different time in American culture. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kdrum Lots of takes along these lines in Obama’s second term that helped justify/rationalize Democrats’ leftward lurch. The Wisdom of the Ancients is my joke-term for the old pre-2016 consensus about how politics works. https://t.co/R1qwTfmxOt — PolitiTweet.org

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Can someone invite me to join the secret center-left magazine writer backchannel that @pareene and @moorehn have discovered or are lowly substackers excluded? Or maybe I’m too Latinx? https://t.co/XoC9rSDuGm — PolitiTweet.org

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@kdrum There are a bunch of circumstances in which behavior will diverge from ideological self-ID (black moderates would vote for Elizabeth Warren over Charlie Baker for example) but they’re sort of odd corner cases, and most of the time it works. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichardHanania Yeah, you’re a smart guy with interesting things to say but unfortunately also a crazy person imprisoned by this kind of tendency toward wild overstatement. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Wisdom of the Ancients hung on a somewhat oversimplified version of this point, which lots of people (myself included) convinced themselves had been “debunked” when it’s actually pretty useful for many purposes. Closer to Newtonian physics than phlogiston theory. — PolitiTweet.org

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What was your de-radicalizing moment? For me it was when I learned that ideological self-identification is actually pretty meaningful. — PolitiTweet.org

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@robkhenderson @Musa_alGharbi Is there radicalization to explain? This seems like maybe young men are the same as ever and we should explain the rising radicalism of young women. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro Well that does explain it — and they should let people build more hotels — PolitiTweet.org

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Kiddie vaccines are a huge deal for a certain slice of the population (including many people I know personally) but total demand for this is very very low. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chris_salviati: @mattyglesias Great piece @mattyglesias! Clearly explains a question our team has been getting a lot lately. Here's an… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @boltsmag: Arizona Republicans are proposing to expand their state's court of appeals by adding six judges. This comes after they expand… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is an excellent piece from @lizzywol — Austin has benefitted from cheaper-than-SF housing but doesn’t actually have better housing policies, so it’s set to converge on the same outcome as demand rises. https://t.co/1JAZhzMpRe — PolitiTweet.org

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Relying on the slower-moving average rent series led the Fed to be too complacent about inflation last year. I’m afraid it will now cause them to continue the hiking cycle longer than they should. https://t.co/FegHW0ydjw — PolitiTweet.org

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If you look at spot rents rather than average rents, housing inflation is higher than the Fed thinks (bad) but already falling (good). https://t.co/FegHW0ydjw https://t.co/dNHFJAfH4M — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @john_voorheis: New paper alert, siren emoji, etc. Headline: within the bottom 99%, wage and earnings distributions compressed over the… — PolitiTweet.org

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But post-Heller and post this new ruling there are still lots of restrictions on buying and carrying guns in blue states and cities. It is good and important to enforce these rules! — PolitiTweet.org

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Something people should be aware of is that criminal justice reform groups worked with the NRA to strike down restrictions on concealed carry. They’ve been pushing the idea that enforcing rules against illegal gun-carrying is bad. https://t.co/Geps308Lqm — PolitiTweet.org