Tried to capture my similar befuddlement here. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-taki...

do the right thing and the market will reward you

AI enabled washing machine? Ok but you’re not lugging my laundry downstairs or folding it for me, which is 99.9% of what makes laundry an onerous task, so fuck off.

If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him.

But they’re not, because they really mean something else.

There’s a view in the poll-essentialism world that because most newspaper subscribers vote for Democrats, liberal criticism of newspapers is presumptively cynical. But newspapers do more than inform their direct subscribers; they help determine what the broader public considers to be alarming.

It appears I shouldn't have limited this entirely correct take to liberals.