@djc i don’t see the piece as very personally directed at yglesias? just explaining why, sure there’s counterproductive politics within the left-ish coalition, but the Obama administration’s “bad boyfriend” theory (yeah they don’t like us but who’s better?) re more left elements conditioned some of todays’s counterproductivity, and rather than mutually complain it’d be better to acknowledge mutual misdeeds and find a settlement. 1/

@djc if there’s some unfairness, i think it’s that MB doesn’t acknowledge how much closer to a European-style coalition the Biden administration has been. Lina Khan, the NLRB, there is real power-sharing “leftward” within the Biden administration. 2/

@djc but the story of what went wrong (and has weakened the D coalition immeasurably by expanding the faction of implacably skeptical “tankies”, who sit elections out, vote third party, or become conspiratorial Trump voters) has never been explicitly acknowledged, the much better state of the D party was a product of quiet discretion by Biden or has staff. it’d be better to acknowledge the Obama period failure and work to institutionalize power sharing. /fin