I hate that it may have taken a shocking election night to make this happen—but better now than never.
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1455906538837745666
To give myself as much grief as I dole out: I should have taken more seriously the point I made, late last year, about the need for people to see amends made after a hellish 2020.
BBB is not some giveaway. It’s an apology for the failure to provide a functioning nation-state.
BBB is not some giveaway. It’s an apology for the failure to provide a functioning nation-state.
https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/status/1344357101972430848
That’s how it needs to be designed, at least.
@zachdcarter nails this in a piece he’s adapted for the Atlantic. Public-health arguments for keeping schools closed for much of 2020 were sound — but the results were punishing & traumatic. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@zachdcarter nails this in a piece he’s adapted for the Atlantic. Public-health arguments for keeping schools closed for much of 2020 were sound — but the results were punishing & traumatic. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Is it fair to hold Dems accountable for Republicans’ refusal to take the pandemic seriously in its early stages, which locked in extended school closures & a horrific death toll? No. To blame teachers? No.
But does it make sense to means test what amounts to an apology? Also no.
But does it make sense to means test what amounts to an apology? Also no.
(A postscript: I don’t care for much of the popularist critique of ‘progressive staffers’ — but a progressive sector whose workplace norms made more room for parents & the non-affluent might have had a better read on how much stress the school closures caused.)
https://twitter.com/mpdillon/status/1455874793627062275
(* Not lumping Patrick in with the popularists, to be clear. I’m in full agreement with him.)
Sargent: “One plausible explanation, suggested by Zachary Carter, is that generalized parental anxieties about school closures and their rocky reopening sparked anger at Democrats.”
A wild result, in my view — but not one I disagree with. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
A wild result, in my view — but not one I disagree with. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
(To resurface a line of thought I’ve shared, it seems bass-ackwards to blame teachers for a societal failure to take the measures needed to curb the spread of the virus or invest in making classrooms safe. But here we are, nevertheless.)
https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/status/1329446623911567363
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