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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Factional disputes among Dems are fake. This entire article is nonsense, there are no distinct ideological factions among Democrats and it’s time to stop pretending. nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/…
Democrats play the game ‘rent-a-progressive’ or ‘pop-up progressive’ to validate whoever they want. Everyone plays along from Barbara Lee to Pod Save Bros. It’s all just irrelevant personality conflicts not ideological ones.
Progressives pushed to appoint Janet Yellen and Neera Tanden, apparently. This is almost certainly 100% false as it came from Biden-world or being a progressive just means being in Biden-world. I think it’s the latter.
But there is lots of progressive support for Neera Tanden! Judy Chu, Barbara Lee, Elizabeth Warren, Hank Johnson, etc.

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What Dayen doesn’t understand is that the only possible candidate for the NEC job is Blackrock exec Brian Deese because he did some mediocre stuff for Obama ten years ago. No one else in the entire country is qualified.
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I'm sorry, but this @csternopher story is inaccurate. I like Gene a great deal, but he's a consumer rights guy not a foe of big tech. For example he pushed for DOJ to sue book publishers on behalf of Amazon, thus solidifying Amazon's market power in books. theinformation.com/articles/the-b…
There's a tendency to read 'Democrat X wants more antitrust enforcement and likes consumers therefore X is a reformer,' but that view reflects a misunderstanding of the debate. Consumer rights types often support concentrating power with the goal of getting conduct changes.
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24 Nov
1. An important new paper from @steelewheelz on big money managers: The New Money Trust: How Large Money Managers Control Our Economy and What We Can Do About It economicliberties.us/our-work/new-m…
2. "The solution is to go straight at the concentration problem by limiting their market share," Graham Steele, who wrote the American Economic Liberties Project paper, told CNN Business. cnn.com/2020/11/24/bus…
3. And separate platform and commerce by forcing BlackRock to split off its Aladdin tech platform. ft.com/content/524a1f…
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24 Nov
Excellent review of Obama's book by @ryanlcooper. There's something however that I don't think progressives are willing to countenance. And that is Obama's Democratic Party simply may not include a faction that seeks to decentralize economic power. theweek.com/articles/95090…
Most of the critique from progressives of Democrats is that Dems aren't successful at winning elections or gaining political power, and that if they did what progressives sought, they would be. But aside from untrue, isn't that besides the point?
Obama's political legacy is a Democratic party with moderate upper class Bush Republican, Ivy League social liberals, and older black voters, financed by Wall Street/Silicon Valley. There are no progressives in there, or perhaps that's just where progressives are.
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1. I worked for a House member in 2009-2010 elected on opposition to war. Early in his term my boss spoke up for getting out of Afghanistan. We got a lot of hostile email from Democrats saying "I used to agree with you but I trust Obama and he wants to surge into Afghanistan.'
2. The problem was systemic. I worked on the Financial Services Committee from 2009-2010, and while Geithner et al. were horrific, Barney Frank, the progressive nonprofit apparatus, and Dem voters were in lock step on bailing out the banks.
3. In 2008, before he was elected, Obama lobbied on behalf of the bailouts. He promised then-Rep. Donna Edwards that if she voted for it, he would work to write off mortgage debt by changing bankruptcy laws. He was lying, his policy team had already dismissed that option.
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I think it's important to acknowledge credit where credit is due, and that means it's time to recognize that under @ddayen, @TheProspect has become the most important political magazine of the last few years. It's not just that they keep scooping others on the transition.
By centering what had traditionally be a center-left magazine around business and power, @ddayen created relevance around governing in an important way. The Day One Agenda has become the most relevant policy reporting done in the 2020 cycle. prospect.org/day-one-agenda
It's time to start recognizing the work that the @TheProspect has put out. Or we can just read the prospect and watch other major media outlets report the same thing 10 days later without credit.
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