Is Matt Yglesias and the "Popularism" online crowd to blame for 2024 ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

There's been a lot of discourse in the current finding scapegoats stage of democratic grief that tries to blame Matt Yglesia and his associated clique of substack liberals for the results, pointing out that their posts were read and used extensively by the Biden administration. That Harris ran a campaign that downplayed her identity and reduced attacks on Trump in favour of a more populist economic agenda, with the adoption of liberal patriotism on their advice having led to prescient nothing.

They also point out the hypocrisy with yglesia having gone on Joe Rogan and other podcasts to promote a book where he calls for an increase of the US population to 1 billion people; while criticising left-wing pressure groups for having forced elected democrats into taking unpopular positions and becoming the face of the Democratic Party for many people such that it was hard for candidates to disentangle them.

What are your thoughts ?

[All Along The Watchtower]

Wasn’t Harris’s campaign still full of Biden people? Seems like that might’ve been a bigger issue.

I do think the messaging around policy was incoherent.