*the fact that Yglesias perversely enjoys trolling, baiting, and generally enraging the Left does not invalidate the Yglesias index
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Lol this comment on the Yglesias index immediately proved it right.
sep 2, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
If Matt Yglesias is left-wing, so much the worse for the left wing.
sep 2, 2025, 3:56 pm • 3 0 • view
This critique always confuses me. As someone gets closer & closer to the rightmost edge of the progressive coalition, their views are definitionally going to be more right-wing.
sep 2, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
You aren't a progressive then
sep 2, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
ok
sep 2, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I dunno, I think if you've moved to the right of "civil liberties" you're not in the progressive coalition anymore.
sep 2, 2025, 4:32 pm • 3 0 • view
People at the edge of your coalition dart in and out in all sorts of objectionable ways. That's how this works.
sep 2, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Like abandoning labor and civil liberties?
sep 2, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
The coalition doesn't abandon; that particular member of it does.
sep 2, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Is he not advocating that "the coalition" abandon those things? Seems to me he doesn't hold any progressive positions at all, and has only ever advocated for any on the basis that they're electorally popular and therefore cynically useful.
sep 2, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Seems to me that he’s advocating that progressives do politics. Most of his agenda falls to the left of the American political divide.
sep 2, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Liz Cheney "falls to the left of the Amercian political divide" right now, but calling her a progressive would be extremely silly. I think he's mostly advocating that progressives shut up and vote for whatever candidate or platform he likes.
sep 2, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s semantics. Use whatever term you prefer for “group who currently supports us more often than not”. The question isn’t whether Yglesias is correct, it’s whether he’s in our coalition.
sep 2, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view