I’m usually one to try to see the nuance in situations like this but it’s inescapable that he’s either ignorant of the most famous genocide arguably ever (stupid) — or he was aware and didn’t have a problem wearing a Nazi emblem for years and years. The apologia is pathetic.

Local opposition to modest plans for affordable housing have *absolutely* slowed down development in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. It sounds great to keep power with the people, but in practice that just allows a tiny group of older, wealthy property owners to dictate who gets to live next door.

Please join us tonight, rain or shine, for a mass mobilization to make clear:

We want ICE out of New York City.

We won’t stop showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.

I agree with you

There is a nationwide housing shortage, which has made prices skyrocket. People on both the left and right have opposed the construction of new housing.

Agree workers should be paid more. We need to get union membership levels back to where they were in the 1960s. And billionaires shouldn’t exist.

I feel like Will makes a very specific claim here that can be proven or disproven. Do you think it’s incorrect?

The graph above takes cost of living into account. That’s what the “real” in “real median income” means. The use of a median income instead of a mean means that the ultra-rich don’t skew the results.

Agree concentration of wealth is a problem, and poverty is a problem. But Will’s point is correct.

What do you mean?

This is a ridiculous response from an opposition party when a president is literally engineering a recession before our very eyes.

He is handing you a layup and you’re tripping over your shoelaces.

It seems pretty facile to conclude that because the ‘08 crisis was caused in part by deregulation (obviously true), we shouldn’t take seriously and work to fix the role onerous zoning regulation plays in restricting housing supply when we have historically low vacancy rates.

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This “excerpt” literally does not appear in the book. What are you talking about?

I think the complaint is more: it is illegal to build anything other than single-family homes in most of America, in the middle of a housing shortage.

If this is your impression you have clearly not read the book. Supply side solutions matter if there are actual supply shortages (housing, medicine). We should ALSO subsidize costs and reduce inequality. But subsidies don’t work when shortages exist.

You may be right, but think it matters that Biden was a historically terrible messenger for his excellent policy, in an environment where even Obama would have struggled to make a case. A lot of the policy wins (IRA, infra) take time to show actual impact that regular people would notice/care about.