Post by @mattsheffield@mastodon.social

2026-10-24 00:22 UTC

🧵 Today, Mehdi Hasan published an interview with Matt Yglesias, a blogger who is one of the most influential pundits on the Democratic leadership class. The clip I'm posting here is probably one of the most revealing in the discussion. In it, Yglesias says that it was wrong for #Minnesota residents to oppose the Trump regime's murderous ICE raids because it was unpopular beforehand. He has a monstrous worldview, and sadly, he's someone Democratic elites think is very smart.

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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-10-24 00:25

Firstly, let's establish that Yglesias has this kind of access. There are dozens of webpages like this one showing Yglesias moderating panels and giving speeches with members of Congress: https://www.thirdway.org/event/winning-the-middle#:~:text=Moderator%3A%20Matt%20Yglesias%C2%A0 Joe Biden's former chief of staff, Ron Klain, explicitly praised Yglesias's supposed insights to the Washington Post: https://archive.ph/EYB8I

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@Simplicator@federate.social 2026-10-24 00:40

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social “But it also is incredibly stupid because it misunderstands several things...” On purpose. After all this time,’it cannot be by mistake. Especially when the “mistakes”only go one way, never to the left. “Popularism has been a total failure” for the public & the Democratic electorate. For the party funders, it has been a great success at keeping democracy, justice, & fairness at bay.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2026-10-24 01:36

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social He’s either completely disingenuous or that stupid. Doesn’t matter really

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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-10-24 01:55

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social this is the essential problem with centrist #democrats: to win, they try to appeal to right wingers right wingers are bigots and ignorants. they are not going to stop voting #GOP and, by trying to appeal to right wingers, they lose the left, and lose the #election the left is the base of the left. if you betray them, you lose. period there is no center to appeal to. at least, not anymore in this godforsaken country

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@ausgroucho@aus.social 2026-10-24 02:00

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social Living in Cloud Cuckoo Land is/was/never will be moral. logical, useful or "very smart". Matt, tell me you're an entitled fairy-land dweller without using any of those adjectives and nouns. Also, an honest idiot is still an idiot.

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@PeachMcD@union.place 2026-10-24 02:41

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social Thank you for posting this. @mehdirhasan@mastox.eu is a treasure. His skills bring me joy & hope. #VichyDemocrat buried & he just kept smiling & digging 🤦🏻 Solidarity from Tacoma :BLM: :af: :ai_free: :better_pride:🕊🇵🇸

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@Shillary@mastodon.social 2026-10-24 02:59

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social I’m not sure where he is so influential. I hear much more derision towards his ideas.

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@jonesmurphy@mastodon.social 2026-10-24 04:38

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social I know many 'Democratic elites', and I've never heard any even mention Matt Yglesias. All vocally support resistance to ICE. Why do you think he's so influential?

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