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Jan 16,, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Department of depressing juxtapositions, NYT trending edition: Image
The first piece there is my column, about Biden’s supply-side crises and mistakes, where I write: Image
The second is an extremely popular, helpful article on avoiding counterfeit masks, which would be unnecessary if the supply chain for good masks was clearer, and if you could just get them free from the gov. nytimes.com/article/covid-…
Anyway - full column here. All of this can be fixed! nytimes.com/2022/01/16/opi…
And perhaps it will be!

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Jan 11,
I've been thinking about this chart, which shows people rating their personal finances highly, and the national economy and "buying climate" poorly.

On one level, it's weird: How can so many feel good about their finances and bad about the economy?

But look at it another way.
One interpretation of the gap, the one many liberals like, is that it's picking up a negative media environment.

Your personal finances are fine, but you keep hearing about inflation, and worse if you watch Fox News, so your overall impressions are negative.
That's surely part of it. But not all. The partisan gap is smaller tan I would've thought.
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Jan 9,
I've seen a lot of people link to my piece with Tip O'Neill's old aphorism that "all politics is local."

I don't think that's quite right. It's that local politics is increasingly national. nytimes.com/2022/01/09/opi…
I talked with @JakeMGrumbach for the piece, who's forthcoming book, "Laboratories Against Democracy," is all about this. He had a line I didn't end up getting into the column, but have been thinking about since:
As he put it, this moment is unique in how much "national conflict is playing out through subnational institutions."
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Jan 9,
I’ll say this for the right: They pay attention to where the power lies in the American system, in ways the left sometimes doesn’t.

Bannon calls this “the precinct strategy,” and it’s working. nytimes.com/2022/01/09/opi…
It reminds me of the old line about war: Amateurs talk strategy; professionals talk logistics. Right now, Trumpists are talking logistics.
“These local races that determine the mechanics of American democracy are the ventilation shaft in the Republican death star. These races get zero national attention. They hardly get local attention. Turnout is often lower than 20%.” - @benwikler
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Jan 5,
Blogs are back. It's the blogosphere that's gone.

And that's partly because of this here web site!
What Substack and other newsletters have brought back is the long blog essay. That's a great form, and I'm thrilled to see it revived.

But that was always a small fraction of blogging, and it wasn't what built the ecosystem.
So much of blogging was "Link + quick comment."

The sites that built the blogosphere as a conversational ecosystem — Instapundit, Atrios, Daily Dish — specialized in that. But we all did a lot of it. And it created maps and conversations for readers to follow.
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Jan 2,
Supply-side COVID-ism!
Previous thread, for context:
Another example: It looks like CDC is going to revisit ending quarantine after 5 days without a test. But there isn't an available supply of rapid tests in many areas.

So we're going to have possibly infectious people driving from drugstore to drugstore, looking?
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Dec 31, 2021
I enjoyed this @VitalikButerin post on the Bulldozer vs. Vetocracy axis, but I think the problem is vetocracies are, by nature, complex and opaque, and people often don't even know the vetocracies shaping their lives. vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/1…
Which is to say: This might be a good way of thinking about the problems of different societies, i.e., China's has bulldozer problems, America has vetocracy problems.

But I'm skeptical it's a good way of thinking about individual or even collective preferences.
Also: People's preference for veto points tend to change a lot with who's in power. I don't find that irrational or insincere, as some do, but it makes it harder to pinpoint an abstract preference in the area.
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