@HughLouisDewey remember when mortara threw a hissy fit because uchicago didn't include him on a panel that discussed SFFA... i'm sure he's never looked inward to wonder why normal people don't want to be around him...
@ZaidJilani Agreed. Also think the left appreciates that Texas is Texas... And he's probably more of an economic populist than you'd expect to emerge as the democratic nominee.
@jacobin@MattBruenig .@MattBruenig made this point very well ~7 years ago on Ezra Klein's old podcast, and Ezra never gave a compelling counter. Glad to see him resurface it again against an even less serious political character in Yglesias.
@PrawfBainbridge@RoKhanna@SEIU Great point. first they're coming for the billionaires (approx 10% of the population), then they came for the centimillionaires (approx 25% of the population. by the time they get down to those of us with a mere $10 million to our names, there will be nobody left to defend us.
@rickmcgahey@jmart@cspan "Caro has tons of facts and is very diligent, but also has simplistic framings."
*proceeds to give the most simplistic possible critique of means of ascent imaginable*