I’ve sort of lost touch with Nate in the last few years. He got way angrier about Covid than I was prepared to put up with. Kind of turned into a whining asshole to be honest. We got some things wrong in the public health response to Covid. But getting things wrong trying to save lives seems better than trying to not save lives. Get over it Nate!
This is a good article though, salty side comments about Covid notwithstanding. The left coalition is at a turning point and MAGA is the only thing holding it together. I’m not probably as much of a “moderate” as Nate but I am losing my patience with the increasingly authoritarian tendencies in parts of the left. And I’m kind of aghast at middle class white kids chanting “from the river to the sea”. Y’all know what that means right? If so… fuck! If not, maybe stop saying it.
IMHO, Silver was rattled by the 2016 election and has been slowly sliding ever since, like a kicker who missed a field goal to end his team’s season and each year gets less and less reliable now that that original seed of doubt has taken root. I remember reading his first few pieces after that night and thinking how much they sounded like the smart kid on the debate team getting proven wrong on something.
Even in this piece there’s a lot of him making an assertion, and rather than backing it up with any evidence, he follows with, essentially, “XYZ is the truth, and it’s the truth because I said so and I’m a Very Smart Person™ and I’ve been saying this long before anyone else was saying it…and I knew it was true that long ago because I’m so smart.”
I’ve sort of lost touch with Nate in the last few years. He got way angrier about Covid than I was prepared to put up with. Kind of turned into a whining asshole to be honest. We got some things wrong in the public health response to Covid. But getting things wrong trying to save lives seems better than trying to not save lives. Get over it Nate!
This is a good article though, salty side comments about Covid notwithstanding. The left coalition is at a turning point and MAGA is the only thing holding it together. I’m not probably as much of a “moderate” as Nate but I am losing my patience with the increasingly authoritarian tendencies in parts of the left. And I’m kind of aghast at middle class white kids chanting “from the river to the sea”. Y’all know what that means right? If so… fuck! If not, maybe stop saying it.
IMHO, Silver was rattled by the 2016 election and has been slowly sliding ever since, like a kicker who missed a field goal to end his team’s season and each year gets less and less reliable now that that original seed of doubt has taken root. I remember reading his first few pieces after that night and thinking how much they sounded like the smart kid on the debate team getting proven wrong on something.
Even in this piece there’s a lot of him making an assertion, and rather than backing it up with any evidence, he follows with, essentially, “XYZ is the truth, and it’s the truth because I said so and I’m a Very Smart Person™ and I’ve been saying this long before anyone else was saying it…and I knew it was true that long ago because I’m so smart.”