@obeto I do not understand why #JonathanChait still has a job.

"In 2016, Trump dumbfounded prognosticators, who assumed the conservative base was motivated by conservatism, by adopting a series of heterodox positions without suffering the customary penalty. The apparent lesson was that Republican voters cared more about confrontational affect than policy substance."

Is Jonathan Chait aware of the conservative media landscape?

#uspol #nymag #jonathanchait

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/what-i-got-wrong-about-ron-desantis-vs-donald-trump.html

"Unlike NY Magazine writers, most Doctors are not Credulous Morons" #JonathanChait

by #JonathanChait in #Intelligencer:

"Previous presidents have managed to raise the debt ceiling either as a stand-alone bill or as part of a larger deal with benefits for both sides. Biden — along with Barack Obama in 2011, who regretted it — stands out for having had to give unrequited concessions to the opposing party to accomplish this historically routine task. You can talk yourself into believing he didn’t have a better choice. But if you think this represents some kind of thematic high point for the administration and a fulfillment of Biden’s grandest promises, your commitment to centrist ideology has grown so dogmatic that you have lost all touch with reality."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/debt-ceiling-deal-biden-mccarthy-bipartisanship-economy.html

#centrists #centrism #DebtCeiling #DebtLimit #bipartisanship #bipartisan #JoeBiden #Biden #KevinMcCarthy #McCarthy #USPol #USPolitics #politics

I see that #JonathanChait is prejudging the #TrumpIndictment before anyone's read it. So very on-brand.

I, for one, am glad we have intellectuals like #JonathanChait who are finally willing to call out the two hooligans pictured below for the harm they have done to impressionable children for 50+ years.