The People's Line

The People's Line

Matt Yglesias is still lying about Democratic donors

Another swing at the Shor / Yglesias "rich people have made Democrats too progressive" schtick.

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Carl Beijer
Oct 20, 2025
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Over the past year or so, a handful of Democratic pundits like David Shor and Matt Yglesias have been workshopping a clever line of attack on left-wing politics: that it is the rich, rather than the working class majority, that have been pulling Democratic politics to the left. Here for example is Yglesias:

The upshot of course is that for Democrats to w…

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