«classic conservative posture of just, like, a person who is doing okay and is kinda selfish and who thinks that progressive idealists might be bad news.»
https://www.slowboring.com/p/how-we-got-here-ce8
“Kinda selfish.” I like that characterization.
«Yet a sense that Trump’s win was somehow an indictment of Obama for not being sufficiently progressive — rather than an indictment of Romney for being too far-right on retirement programs — has hung like a weird fog of misperception over Democrats’ interpretations of Trump-era politics.»
I wonder how much of that “weird fog” traces back to the miasma of social media.
Yglesias is irritating a lot of the time, but that was a good article.
Here, Read This 
@herereadthis.blog That weird fog is having been systematically crop-dusted by numerous parties, none of which are willing to fess up.
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