Thread by @matthewstoller

So @ggreenwald @lhfang @mtracey @mtaibbi @davidsirota were skeptics of corporate power, surveillance, and Wall Street during the Bush and Obama eras. None of them like being hated but they don’t need to be liked. They are among the more curious free thinking writers out there.

I never really understood the establishment vehement hatred of criticism and being proved wrong. It’s unpleasant to be wrong of course but it’s how one learns.

Anyway I think it’s a fascinating time and both parties and most elite institutions are in flux. We missed big things like the pandemic and the public is unhappy. But I do think there’s real learning going on.

Weird to be optimistic but I am.

Given the unreasonable and elitist defenses I’ve seen of the Federal Reserve, the antitrust establishment, judges and Big law I’m sympathetic to their skepticism. And I think more and more insiders are.