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.

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    7 months ago

    ♪♪♪ Sure, once I was young and impulsive
    I wore every conceivable pin
    Even went to socialist meetings
    Learned all the old union hymns
    Ah, but I’ve grown older and wiser
    And that’s why I’m turning you in
    So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal ♪♪♪