"Progressives, Yglesias says, are “detached from practical reality.” But here we have someone who advocates readying ourselves for a war with China, even if in doing so America hurts itself economically, who wants to embrace fossil fuels without taking climate science seriously (he thinks beating China is also more important than climate change), and whose political advice for Kamala Harris was that “she should pivot to the center” (she did, and got creamed). I think it’s very clear we should not listen to such a person, and that if America is to have a future worth living in, guys like this are going to have to be ignored. Because Yglesias, for all that I’ve dwelt on him personally, is not the only smug centrist in the world. There is an entire class of people like him, all posturing as experts, consultants, and pundits of one kind or another. And these people try to pass themselves off as merely offering data and common sense, when many of their positions ignore relevant data and conflict entirely with basic common sense. We should show the same level of respect for the opinions of Matt Yglesias and his ilk that he shows for the “socialist niece who posts obsessively about Genocide Joe,” that is to say, none at all."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-opinions-of-matt-yglesias-should-be-ignored

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