Instead, they insisted the solution lay in the black box known as “culture.” How is culture changed? No one knows.

I figured this was just an annoying tick of the conservative mind. 2016 and onward taught me that, no, progressives and liberals absolutely have their own version of this hang-up. 2/2

There’s a version of this problem in the private economy as well. But it hits different, since there, “merit” and “qualification” are not defined by small-d democratic deliberation, but by the whims of our small, oligarchic population of capital owners.

This was the fundamental problem with Democrats running around asking how anyone could vote for Trump over Clinton or Harris, when the latter two were obviously so much more “qualified” for the position.

(Also, meant to end that first sentence with an exclamation point, not a period. :) An instance where the emotional valence of punctuation matters.)

Glad to hear my piece was useful.

Also, now I’m googling John Harvey, and it looks like someone may have adapted that article into a YouTube video? www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8St...

If you want to understand why Biden's economic approval is in the tank—despite all the genuinely beneficial things Dems have done—a good place to start is that Bidenomics' policies really weren't designed with these characteristics in mind.

“We go into explanation with the TV shows we have.” 😆