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Matt Yglesisas, who was the most subscribed to Substack writer by the
Biden transition team, is a braindead idiot. Fraudulent doesn’t even begin
to describe his image as a supposed Very Serious Thinker who is widely
read by Democrats. The stories about him being gross at Vox are endless
and the fact that he and his ilk have become the favored reads of the Democratic Party is a really great example of why the vast majority of
people fucking hate the Democratic Party’s guts. Yglesias brands himself
as a popularist, someone who claims to just want to do whatever is popular according to polls.

The problem with this childlike viewpoint is that it assumes public
opinion is static and unchanging and per popularism’s own illogic, should regard Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech as opposed to
their cause because he was extremely unpopular when he gave it. This
strain of anti-thought by its own definition should be opposed to all
struggles for Civil Rights in American history because they all have
started out in the red. In 1993, interracial marriage was still
underwater, so I can only assume that per popularism’s beliefs, Yglesias
would argue that outlawing it in 1994 would have been the Very Smart and
Very Serious strategy for Democrats.

Back in November I went after this group of powerful brainstems pretending
to have a coherent ideology, and I pointed to the eternal dynamic in immigration polling that shows a distinct split between Trump’s topline
“do you approve or disapprove” immigration figures that were generally net positive, and all the detailed questions about his actual policies
underneath it that have always been unpopular. The know-less-than-nothing popularists told us nonstop that there was nothing we could do to change
public opinion, and we should just let Trump build concentration camps and
let him trample due process in order to send American citizens to gulags
in El Salvador. What patriots Yglesias and his ilk are. With friends like
this, who needs enemies?

I scrolled through Yglesias’ Twitter feed today, and other than saying he
was in favor of Trump establishing Nazi-style policies as he is “sort of
open to the idea that we should have a country with a national ID card and
a rule that you’re expected to have your papers on you at all times in
case your citizenship is challenged,” he hasn’t really posted about
immigration since that condescending post I embedded above. He even has a pinned post from that same day saying “by suggesting it is bad to increase
the salience of immigration, I have generated meta-discourse that has only further increased the salience. No more posts about this from me ever!”

Which is a convenient thing to say given all the immigration polling in
the last week revealing that Trump is now underwater on an issue the popularists said we should concede on because they don’t understand how
issue polling works and never have.

If the popularists were right that public opinion is both unchanging and
that issue polling directly correlates to voting preference, then it is
very likely that the large majorities of Democrats and Independents saying
they approve of Medicare for All and the Green New Deal in 2020 would have ushered Bernie Sanders into the White House. That this didn’t happen was a lesson for all us lefties in how simply proposing popular policy is not
enough to win elections, and we learned something in 2020 that the Matt Yglesias’ of the world have proven themselves constitutionally incapable
of understanding.

Because these lazy boobs are not interested in learning anything.
Popularists are raging ideologues pretending to have evidence-based
beliefs. Joe Rogan has already demonstrated more of a willingness to let
new facts change his mind than Joe Biden’s favorite Substack writer has
this year. Popularism is a branding exercise centered around shutting your brain off and pointing to the biggest numbers you see in topline polling
data and thinking that makes you smart while actively avoiding any real
kind of statistical analysis. Popularism is entirely antithetical to how politics has worked forever as a persuasive exercise, and it is the kind
of thinking that could only come from a group of out of touch elites who haven’t talked to someone this past decade who makes less than six figures
that wasn’t performing a service for them.

Yglesias and John Fetterman and the litany of out of touch Beltway
popularist dipshits have been talking nonstop since the election about how public opinion is supposedly unchanging and how Democrats need to enthusiastically embrace some parts of Trumpism if they want to win future elections. Now that public opinion is dramatically turning on Trump, these frauds are silent, proving that they are professional liars at best, and pro-Trump wolves in sheep’s clothing at worst.

Chris Van Hollen showed these Vichy Democrats what real leadership looks
like and helped turn the tide of popular opinion on immigration against
Trump, and every single poll on every single issue has moved against Trump since he was inaugurated. Karl Rove spent years tormenting Democrats by
turning their strengths into weaknesses, and the supposed dispassionate
and evidence-based popularists still argue today that Rove’s strategy that
won the GOP a generation of power is a misguided one. Popularists have
proven themselves to be unserious ideologues who cannot even pretend to
meet their own supposed data-driven standards. Stop listening to them.
Stop reading them. These functional Trump allies know less than nothing.

https://www.splinter.com/trumps-polls-are-plummeting-as-the-popularists- prove-they-know-less-than-nothing-about-politics

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