Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand
you don't get to insist that no one talks about your political project and it's weak and pathetic that you think you do
Edit: I have grown frustrated by how this piece is shared in bad faith or by misrepresenting what it argues, so I am removing it from this newsletter. You can find an archived version of this post here.
Short and to the point. Love it! Hopefully the rest of the pundit class will pick this point up and spread it like the "There are no Refs" essay is starting to make the rounds.... And you did it without having to use the increasingly tired "motte and bailey" phrase.
I am more and more convinced that the politics ostensibly practiced by the people who are noisiest about being part of the left in America literally don't actually even exist. There are no coherent positions, no policy agendas, no ideas that go beyond trying to torture the English language around the clock with one another.
It's simply just a tedious, linguistic parlor game played for one-upsmanship points in the Professional Managerial Class.