“I didn’t plan to run for office again, but when I see what’s going on, I know I can do something about it for Ohio,”
I wish he didn't say things like this, even if it's true in this case. "I'm selfless, unambitious yada yada and doing it all for you the people". Noone believes that and it only makes you sound inauthentic and pandering. Voters are super cynical, too much so in my view but still.
I am a Sherrod fan (and his wife is great, too), but here in Ohio it feels like he is the only option for Dems, and he's an aging option because the state Democratic party has failed to create any sort of bench. The former Republican speaker of the house here is sitting in prison because of a brazen bribery scandal that has sent multiple people to jail and resulted in two suicides, and has ties to the current governor, and there hasn't really been a viable statewide Dem (except for Brown) in what feels like a million years. And the Republicans have placed a popular former OSU football coach as the heir-apparent lieutenant governor. And we are stuck with two very unimpressive Republican senators, but they have an R by their name, and that seems to be enough.
Extra extra extra no “writing from the Left Bank” (please, make it stop) expat Substacks.
Extra extra extra extra no “my spouse is supporting me, I’m raising my children in Paris on the Left Bank like it’s the most normal thing in the world and not something that requires a massive income, an inherited apartment or both, and I’m flogging my “being French” cosplay ripped from Emily in Paris and full of condescending stereotypes about how the French “get it” and are a simple people with simple pleasures and did I mention that I’m just better than you?” Substacks.
Having said that, I would read the hell out of a Substack that just serializes Paris expat memoirs worth a damn (Julia Child, A.J. Liebling, Hemingway, etc.)
It is literally impossible to have a Substack of debates in the sense Matt was talking about. A debate is a real time in person event almost always with formal time limits and rules on back and forth.
It was clear to everyone that was the context of the word "debate" when Matt wrote his article.
From Jerusalem Demsas' introduction to The Argument: "We are not agnostic between all possible lives — our commitment to individual liberties is not an excuse to wash our hands of judgment or devolve into moral relativism. There are better and worse kinds of lives, better and worse ways to conduct ourselves, better and worse decisions."
I might subscribe just to see if this is a throwaway line or actually something that comes through the posts and articles.
While this is early on and Echelon's always been a little more-Kamala friendly in 2028 polling than others (if I remember right), interesting polling of black Democrats. Also shows even the supposed moderate African-American wing who supposedly shuts down the wacky white liberals from nominating the wrong guy are on their 'bring us a fighter' arc. Also shows a big blind support in 'elite' circles of all ideologies - centrist, leftie, and liberal that there's not a 'serious' person who's Kamala 2028, yet....
Harris just has high name recognition now but she probably doesn’t have much chance given that she already lost once. She also didn’t do particularly well amongst black voters against Trump. The fact is after both Clinton and Harris lost Democrats probably aren’t going to be in the mood to roll the dice on another female or nonwhite candidate, unless we get a 2008-like economy where Democrats can’t lose.
To follow up on this, if Kamala runs, I think theres a decent shot that four years of ideological warfare is all for naught, and she wins South Carolina w/ 45% of the vote and Matt and other moderates has to commiserate in confusion w/ the DSA and other lefites in sadness as Shapiro or whomever has 4% and AOC or whomever has 8%.
What! Do we need ANOTHER sensible Centrist Substack? And with incestuous overlap of personnel? :)
Kelsey Piper is much more of a libertarian than a centrist, albeit that's compatible with various flavors of classical liberalism.
The Republicans and Progressives are so extreme that Libertarianism is almost “centrist.” :)
What does SB PM stand for?
Slow Boring PM (evening, not AM) edition
“I didn’t plan to run for office again, but when I see what’s going on, I know I can do something about it for Ohio,”
I wish he didn't say things like this, even if it's true in this case. "I'm selfless, unambitious yada yada and doing it all for you the people". Noone believes that and it only makes you sound inauthentic and pandering. Voters are super cynical, too much so in my view but still.
I am a Sherrod fan (and his wife is great, too), but here in Ohio it feels like he is the only option for Dems, and he's an aging option because the state Democratic party has failed to create any sort of bench. The former Republican speaker of the house here is sitting in prison because of a brazen bribery scandal that has sent multiple people to jail and resulted in two suicides, and has ties to the current governor, and there hasn't really been a viable statewide Dem (except for Brown) in what feels like a million years. And the Republicans have placed a popular former OSU football coach as the heir-apparent lieutenant governor. And we are stuck with two very unimpressive Republican senators, but they have an R by their name, and that seems to be enough.
No more expat Substacks.
Extra no more expats in France Substacks.
Extra extra no expats in Paris Substacks.
Extra extra extra no “writing from the Left Bank” (please, make it stop) expat Substacks.
Extra extra extra extra no “my spouse is supporting me, I’m raising my children in Paris on the Left Bank like it’s the most normal thing in the world and not something that requires a massive income, an inherited apartment or both, and I’m flogging my “being French” cosplay ripped from Emily in Paris and full of condescending stereotypes about how the French “get it” and are a simple people with simple pleasures and did I mention that I’m just better than you?” Substacks.
Having said that, I would read the hell out of a Substack that just serializes Paris expat memoirs worth a damn (Julia Child, A.J. Liebling, Hemingway, etc.)
Matt savages Brown as a bad candidate on twitter all the time. I don’t think Matt has nearly the grip on the electorate he thinks he does
George Will is on fire:
https://wapo.st/47xIPiD
"As flaccid as a boned fish, Donald Trump crumpled quicker than even Vladimir Putin probably anticipated."
Niiice!
Matt didn't you recently write a post about how you thought debates weren't great uses of time? The Argument sounds like a substack of debates.
Good luck to them. I hope they don't go the way of FP: Diversity of thought, unmoored
It is literally impossible to have a Substack of debates in the sense Matt was talking about. A debate is a real time in person event almost always with formal time limits and rules on back and forth.
It was clear to everyone that was the context of the word "debate" when Matt wrote his article.
the new thing has a good line-up
kelsey piper in particular deserves to be more well known imo
You can write postcards against Husted. Each one is so satisfying, especially my stinger, "his fiscal irresponsibility!"
My team is about to suffer their third blowout loss in four days. Right now they are down by 10 runs. I haz a sad. ☹️
OK, first the sympathy: yes that sucks.
But my first reaction was something like "the sound of a sad trash can lid banging."
Dude, that was *eight years ago.* None of the teammates from that year are on the team anymore except Altuve (and Correa IIRC?). Time to let go?
And yes, what they did in 2017 was shitty and wrong and I'm not excusing it!
I'm from Philly, we lost to you in the Series. We never forget anything.
I'm sorry. I didn't know. My sincere apology.
Looks like you guys kicked the Mariners' ass tonight, so that's got to feel good! And you're top of NL East, good job!
Thanks, we also just lost Zack Wheeler, out with blood clots, maybe for the season, maybe for good.
From Jerusalem Demsas' introduction to The Argument: "We are not agnostic between all possible lives — our commitment to individual liberties is not an excuse to wash our hands of judgment or devolve into moral relativism. There are better and worse kinds of lives, better and worse ways to conduct ourselves, better and worse decisions."
I might subscribe just to see if this is a throwaway line or actually something that comes through the posts and articles.
I subscribed to The Argument and I was wondering if Kate will be departing from Slow Boring in order to take on her new duties.
Right now I have Brown and Ossoff on the list for donations. Who else?
'Thief', starring James Caan, is free on Prime video right now. Go watch it.
While this is early on and Echelon's always been a little more-Kamala friendly in 2028 polling than others (if I remember right), interesting polling of black Democrats. Also shows even the supposed moderate African-American wing who supposedly shuts down the wacky white liberals from nominating the wrong guy are on their 'bring us a fighter' arc. Also shows a big blind support in 'elite' circles of all ideologies - centrist, leftie, and liberal that there's not a 'serious' person who's Kamala 2028, yet....
https://x.com/IAPolls2022/status/1957551655706046717
Black Democratic voters who support:
• Harris: 35%
• Crockett: 11%
• Newsom: 8%
• Whitmer: 4%
• Booker: 4%
• AOC: 3%
• Smith: 2%
• Shapiro: 1%
.....
• Buttigieg: 0%
Harris just has high name recognition now but she probably doesn’t have much chance given that she already lost once. She also didn’t do particularly well amongst black voters against Trump. The fact is after both Clinton and Harris lost Democrats probably aren’t going to be in the mood to roll the dice on another female or nonwhite candidate, unless we get a 2008-like economy where Democrats can’t lose.
To follow up on this, if Kamala runs, I think theres a decent shot that four years of ideological warfare is all for naught, and she wins South Carolina w/ 45% of the vote and Matt and other moderates has to commiserate in confusion w/ the DSA and other lefites in sadness as Shapiro or whomever has 4% and AOC or whomever has 8%.