Really Ezra Klein? ... Again

[SocialDemocrat61]

Continuing his descent into irrelevancy.

[calguy]

1. As if anyone cared...

…or noticed the Ezra Klein ‘Show’.

[JI7]

2. We give these people too much attention

Even Charlie Kirk's influence in getting support was mainly among white males that would already be more likely to vote Republican.

We saw this in the college poll where almost all students are familiar with Kirk but a large majority disagree with him.

In the end a lot of this has become a business with a need to exaggerate amna sensationalize in order to get views.

[Celerity]

3. Ezra Klein is one of the main pushers of the abundance agenda dross.

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-11-26-abundance-agenda-neoliberalisms-rebrand/

The past few years have seen a widespread move away from free-market dogma, as policymakers search for new economic perspectives. The election of Joe Biden in 2020 proved to be a crossroads for economic orthodoxy. For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a Democratic administration did not entrust its economic policy exclusively to adherents of Robert Rubin’s philosophy, for whom the solution to any economic issue was usually “Be less of a Democrat.”

Instead, the Biden-Harris administration trusted progressives as a coalition partner, rather than an electoral faction that had to be dealt with, not worked with. The Biden administration attempted true industrial policy for the first time in over a generation, rekindled enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and didn’t shy away from stimulating the economy when it was foundering. And while Biden’s term has been a rousing success on most macroeconomic measures—the electoral loss turned in part on global inflation and the rollback of the temporary pandemic safety net—progressives’ increasing power within Democratic politics has caused some moderates to become enraged that they’re now expected to settle for the position of senior partner, and denied near-total control.

Enter the “abundance agenda,” an attempt to generate new messaging for a new political era in which neoliberalism has fallen rapidly out of favor. The term has been floating around for years, but has more recently become a rallying cry for a whole array of deregulatory causes. The abundance agenda has also offered shelter to effective altruists, who have been searching for a flag to rally around that isn’t associated with one of the largest frauds in world history. The Biden administration has started to usher in a post-neoliberalism, with more heterodox ideas competing for acceptance. Abundance is neoliberalism repackaged for a post-neoliberal world.

What exactly abundance adherents believe varies, of course, but there are a number of broad precepts: building more housing, producing more energy, and fostering more technological innovation. None of these are objectionable goals; the differences with progressives arise, largely, in how to get there. Abundance starts from a “growth above all” mindset. The agenda’s advocates hate residential zoning laws—which, contrary to what they frequently imply, is something they have in common with us and most progressives—but also detest the National Environmental Policy Act, support fracking, oppose tenant protections, and are often deferential to the policy preferences of Big Tech.

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[SocialDemocrat61]

7. This might explain why

Klein hated Biden so much.

[travelingthrulife]

10. What a novel idea...regain control of the Democratic Party with corporate money.

This is how we got here. What is wrong with him, besides greed.

[AStern]

4. Scratch a Centrist and you'll find a FASCIST

nt

[Prairie Gates]

5. He's such a tool

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Klein is the David Brooks of the left

He is an ignorant, arrogant hack who is consistently wrong about everything, and should be ignored.

[newdeal2]

8. He found this new abundance angle

I don’t think anyone cares about his ideas outside of the usual cable news shows.

[Passages]

9. Wrong about everything.

I imagine he believes this capitulation will keep him safe and relevant.