@nextmajorgenre@AmitSegal He failed and is accepting a worse deal than ante bellum, a total failure and waste of precious resources and manpower, literally a betrayal of America
@oren_cass We offered a well defined path -- acquire human capital via higher education -- it's just that conservative men are incapable or unwilling to follow this
@conor74384279@sentdefender Had a chance, people chose the demented old guy twice in a row (Biden in 20, Trump in 24), can't really argue with revealed preferences
@Steve_in_TO@mattyglesias Mortgage rules for poor people aren't what caused the crisis, rich people in finance doing nonsense shenanigans was, but we really only addressed the former
@ShitusLibus@mattyglesias But the median person in the 1990s was anti-miscegenist! This is accidentally a good point: anti-DEI sentiment is just old fashioned racism!
@realBrandonGill Democrat is a noun, Democratic is an adjective. We speak English in this country, if you are unwilling to assimilate to our ways you are free to leave
@JHWeissmann 5 years from now every Republican is going to pretend their support for Trump was a dalliance, these polite fictions are how a polity stays intact
@AStuttaford@harryh@mattyglesias If you want to live in the suburbs you can keep doing that, but you are one guy and other people may want to do other things -- the YIMBY position is that we should build more of all types of housing in ~all places.