@franktaber @DetroitDan I agree with you!

But I still think it’s a good piece precisely because it grants Vance and his dance partners the benefit of the doubt and explores the plain contradictions in their coalition in the most sympathetic plausible terms. Even if you take these people more seriously (and more morally) than they deserve to be taken, where do you end up? Not in a very persuasive spot, I think, but Stoller does give fair consideration.