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Would Yglesias have opposed genocide under Harris?

Democratic loyalists are happy to join the antiwar movement when their leaders aren't in power.

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Carl Beijer
Jul 31, 2025
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Once again, Matt Yglesias is struggling to explain how he ended up on the wrong side of a war that the left opposed from the start:

I’m just deeply reluctant to credit the critics with being “right” about this — they at every turn took concrete political actionts that made the worst case outcomes more rather than less likely.

In particular, Yglesias alleg…

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