Liberal leftwinger muttering grumpily into the void. Wrote about politics and economic policy in ages long past. Sometimes still do.
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Jeff Spross retweeted
"You chose hate and Michigan chose hope," @AbdulElSayed says to his defeated Republican opponent Mike Rogers. "May we never have to see the likes of you in Michigan again."
Jeff Spross retweeted
All the demographic destiny stuff continues to be loser talk from the 2000s. In the Trump era we've had massive swings in voting behavior by education, age, race, religion, and then back again, we've had a Texas R+2, a Texas R+14, and a Texas D+11 election, it's all up for grabs.
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YOU. CANNOT. FUCK. THIS. UP. THIS. TIME. @TheDemocrats
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Raise the minimum wage!
The most famous of the classic blunders is no longer getting involved in a land war in Asia, I guess.
Jeff Spross retweeted
“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘latinx’ and ‘unhoused’ without the fear of getting cancelled…it’s a new dawn.”
The rest of the country is voting to decide the fate of American democracy. But here in the District of Columbia, we must content ourselves with voting on the moral merits of foie gras.
To me, one of the clearest arguments that some form of price regulation needs to a regular and ongoing feature of federal economic policy is the simple fact that “price over volume” is a standard, well-known strategy in business management.
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Clear explanation of how inequality feeds inflation: firms choose price over volume
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There's one small, unglamorous, word that would immensely improve public discourse about Israel, American Jews and antisemitism.
It's the word "some."
Every time I hear a pro-Israel Jewish pundit declaring that "Abdul El-Sayed makes Jews feel unsafe" or "Jews feel uncomfortable in today's Democratic Party," I think: What's with the royal we?
We Jews are famously disputatious. And that division now extends to basic questions about the nature of Israeli state.
39% of American Jews think Israel committed genocide (Washington Post, Sept 2025)
A plurality of American Jews under 35 favor a single democratic state from the river to the sea. (Jewish Voter Resource Center, May 2026)
So yes, some American Jews fear Abdul El-Sayed and the Democratic Party's pro-Palestinian direction. But others love it.
Is the divide 50-50? No. It's probably somewhere between 75-25 and 60-40. (As a rough proxy, Mamdani won about a third of the Jewish vote). But it sure as heck doesn't entitle anyone to project their own views onto American Jews as a whole.
So, next time, include the word "some."
Because no one elected you Pope.
Jeff Spross retweeted
G.K. Chesterton’s old adage remains undefeated: “The poor sometimes object to being governed badly. The rich always object to being governed at all.”
I mean, I’ll believe it when I actually see it on election night.
But still. Holy shit.
NEWS: The last Senate polls of 2026 from NYT/Siena:
From me and @RuthIgielnik
nytimes.com/2026/11/01/us/po…
The deficit is only a problem if it’s contributing to inflation. Inflation is currently 3.7%. That could be lower. But it’s not unusually high, historically speaking. It’s also clearly the result of tariffs and energy supply/cost shocks, not fiscal stimulus. 1/
So much discourse spurred by @ZLiscow's piece in @TheArgumentMag that we decided to unpaywall it.
cc: @MarcGoldwein @jasonfurman @Brendan_Duke @JessicaBRiedl
theargumentmag.com/p/how-to-…
