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noahpinion.blog
MAGA's attack on science is even worse than it looks

When MAGA types tell you about scientists losing their credibility, or a drop in trust in science, they're only talking about themselves. Whatever left-wing politicization of science happened during the Biden administration — and there was definitely some of that — it was not enough to make most Republicans lose faith in the scientific enterprise, or favor research cuts in order to purge unwanted ideology from the system.

— Noah Smith
5d ago
noahpinion.blog
The Democrats have their own MAGA now

Avila Chevalier is as much of an extremist as anyone associated with the MAGA movement. The best comparator on the right would probably be Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has made a long string of similarly extreme and wacky statements. My typical line is that "both extremes are bad, but the Republican extreme is worse". Avila Chevalier is severely testing that asymmetry.

2w ago
noahpinion.blog
Does anything I write matter anymore?

Whether it was Covid, Trump's advancing age, or his attempted overthrow of the 2020 election that made Trump totally lose faith in everyone but himself, the big man now seems inclined to listen only to the voices in his own head. There's no intellectual movement here, just a cult of personality. There's no one to argue with, because nothing that's happening is based on an argument in the first place.

3w ago

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

4w ago
3quarksdaily.com
Left Impasse

Local contests are, it should be said, an unreliable guide to national outcomes. Three years after his capture of the Élysée in 2017, Emmanuel Macron failed to establish a foothold in municipalities large or small; he was nevertheless re-elected two years later.

3mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Yes, assimilation is good

In the past, showing that you were a good American — waving the flag, joining the army, speaking perfect English, and so on — was good enough to reassure most conservatives that you weren't an invader bent on overthrowing America's culture and replacing it with something alien. Nowadays, that's not enough.

3mo ago

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