If only we had an opposition party that could capitalize on this

Having let them to distort the term terrorism to where it means little more than "people we'd like to kill", the news media are now parroting the new word 'narcoterrorism' like it's a meaningful concept. The best of them might put it in quotes.

Sure looks like willful blindness, a bowing to power.

Theocracy?

This makes it possible to fire him over the Signal breach instead of for the war crimes.

One problem with innumeracy is that it trickles down

If only we had an opposition party

If only we had an opposition party

So it used to sound impossible, but now it’s merely inexplicable

Is this a counterargument or a funny?

If you're serious, I'd say prosecute them all of course. Just don't put Merrick Garland in charge.

I think the scams at issue are phone and email scams, phishing, identity theft etc. Most people I know are actually quite familiar with those, worry about them and wish government would do more to stop them. A promise to do something about that sort of scam might resonate with voters.

Can any American charged with a crime invoke the "activist judge" exception and get off scot free, or do only corrupt government officials get to do that?

This from the same national media orgs that determinedly drove Biden's approval from net-positive to net-negative by portraying the withdrawal from Afghanistan as some sort of abject failure and humanitarian horror, let us not forget.

I mean, seriously, NY Times, are you oblivious or misleading?

If there’s a third option please let me know, I can’t think of one.

Corrupt. The word you're looking for is 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩.

He wrote that in 2013. Even if you strongly disagree, one bad take from that long ago falls somewhat short of making him a villain, to my mind. But YMMV.

In any case, I'm not striving to be the Yglesias Defense League. Just a bit puzzled by the level of disdain out there. It seems illogical to me.

I've been reading Yglesias since he was a budding blogger a quarter century or so ago. Don't agree with everything he says, but the level of Matt hatred out there strikes me as not remotely justified. No one is perfect but he is on balance a liberal asset.

Just my 2c

If you read the replies to Matt's previous post, you will understand the sheer necessity of this preface.

Adding... It's by @brendannyhan.bsky.social who is one of the good guys.