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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Why are these issues in Mamdani’s ambit? He said he’d focus on running NYC, so why is he acting like a DC power broker?
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Why are these issues in Mamdani’s ambit? He said he’d focus on running NYC, so why is he acting like a DC power broker?
I don’t think this fully appreciates the frustration felt by folks who want to support new populist voices in our party (against the dscc grain). Let’s try to assess who Platner is now and his journey here, not who he was 10 yrs ago. And I just don’t believe he has (or had) Nazi sympathies.
October 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I don’t think this fully appreciates the frustration felt by folks who want to support new populist voices in our party (against the dscc grain). Let’s try to assess who Platner is now and his journey here, not who he was 10 yrs ago. And I just don’t believe he has (or had) Nazi sympathies.
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👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice
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I did not know this previously, but apparently a U.S. President can unilaterally dismantle a law passed by congress and freeze already awarded funding for essential services and face absolutely no repercussions for it whatsoever
hell, the press will barely even remember he did it 6 months later
hell, the press will barely even remember he did it 6 months later
October 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I did not know this previously, but apparently a U.S. President can unilaterally dismantle a law passed by congress and freeze already awarded funding for essential services and face absolutely no repercussions for it whatsoever
hell, the press will barely even remember he did it 6 months later
hell, the press will barely even remember he did it 6 months later
I assume that was also your point. I think it’d be helpful if finance folks were less indirect in discussing inequality, since it’s driving our economic policies and politics.
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I assume that was also your point. I think it’d be helpful if finance folks were less indirect in discussing inequality, since it’s driving our economic policies and politics.
Doesn’t your chart answer and contradict the basis of your question? 90% of Americans have far less of the wealth pie than ever. Wealth is relative, not just to inflation.
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Doesn’t your chart answer and contradict the basis of your question? 90% of Americans have far less of the wealth pie than ever. Wealth is relative, not just to inflation.
Reaganism - market liberalism without restraint or populism and incitement of race prejudice - is surely what helped get us to this moment. It is an unappealing dream to believe that the democratic future is fundamentally “unpopulist”. Abundance must be populist to work as a re-democratizing force.
October 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reaganism - market liberalism without restraint or populism and incitement of race prejudice - is surely what helped get us to this moment. It is an unappealing dream to believe that the democratic future is fundamentally “unpopulist”. Abundance must be populist to work as a re-democratizing force.
What Wood ignores of the past is that the consensus was forged on New Deal style social welfare principles that *restrained* market liberalism’s most egregious effects - econ populism. What Wood ignores now is that the billionaire class aligns with the antiliberal Republicans. Reaganism is no answer
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
What Wood ignores of the past is that the consensus was forged on New Deal style social welfare principles that *restrained* market liberalism’s most egregious effects - econ populism. What Wood ignores now is that the billionaire class aligns with the antiliberal Republicans. Reaganism is no answer
Interesting convo following Coates’ incisive piece. Coates effectively decentered the lens through which Ezra views the relevant history. While I disagree with his tentative musings on the how of it, I also appreciate Ezra’s central point that we (the left, broadly construed) need to win.
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Interesting convo following Coates’ incisive piece. Coates effectively decentered the lens through which Ezra views the relevant history. While I disagree with his tentative musings on the how of it, I also appreciate Ezra’s central point that we (the left, broadly construed) need to win.