In Defense of Punching Left

I’m a liberal. I’ve always been a liberal…

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“Don’t punch left” is the core tenet of Solidarity, a new book by Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix. In a laudatory interview with the Washington Post, Hunt-Hendrix said the book was aimed not only at progressives in general but also specifically at liberals who criticize the left, naming me and newsletter author Matthew Yglesias as “falling into the right’s divide-and-conquer strategy.”

I read a couple more paragraphs and I had to stop. I forgot what a terrible writer he is. The article is like reading a textbook that lectures you.

r/neoliberal thread

  • Hexagons [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    But then why ever talk about it at all? He didn’t need to bring it up in this article. I dunno, I’m sure I’ll never get a satisfying answer. Probably even Jonathan Chait doesn’t understand why he does the things that he does