Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If Democrats nominate a celebrity outsider presidential candidate any time this century it’s going to be a woman or person of color, not Jon Stewart. — PolitiTweet.org

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I know this is not the intention but I think selectively policing right-wing accounts while letting the hammer & sickle crowd run amok is in practice a huge gift to Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro Also the nonstandard hot dog rolls — PolitiTweet.org

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We need to bring free speech to Twitter and end bias so that journalists are more routinely exposed to fringy right-wing media personalities and their views so there’s more discussion of this stuff in mainstream outlets. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ll buy Twitter — PolitiTweet.org

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We have to go back https://t.co/xcWjSOBiQq — PolitiTweet.org

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Morton’s would not be my choice of steakhouse for a night out — try St Anselm, Joe’s, or Bourbon Steak. — PolitiTweet.org

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It would be nice for the BLS to do a version of average hourly wages that isn't dominated by compositional effects. — PolitiTweet.org

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A problem for Oz is that living in New Jersey opens him up to "not one of us" attacks that carry a dual meaning given his foreign military service etc https://t.co/LYVk1V9bwi — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Once reality sets in, CO-SEN. — PolitiTweet.org

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But looping back around to where I started, these same people would never cut an ad talking about their "sweeping" legislation or "massive social spending" initiatives. In that context, everyone agrees that's not how you want to portray yourself. https://t.co/1NuwltzqVT — PolitiTweet.org

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My experience at Vox was that Dem Hill staff would never complain about this kind of coverage — they didn't phone up to be like "actually, these are modest common-sense incremental reforms." They wanted to communicate in the media to the base that they were doing big things. https://t.co/qL8g9Z6iKb — PolitiTweet.org

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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 @resnikoff: Me and @hanlonbt in @thenation making the case for why the left should embrace building more market rate housing https://t.c… — 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