Perry Bacon
Government and policy writer. Views are my own. perry.bacon@washpost.com. washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-…
- Exactly.
- "The issue isn’t that Democrats lack young talent. It’s that anyone who threatens the party’s donor class or foreign policy consensus, young or old, is filtered out." www.currentaffairs.org/news/david-h...
- No notes.
- I assumed they thought these things, but they are saying them out loud now and it is distressing while not surprising.
- That paper has great writers, but it feels like “don’t be too critical of Trump” and “find ways to cast the left as equally radical” are guiding principles there. The corruption post today from one of their reporters absolutely deserved the roasting it received.
- The inevitable Elissa Slotkin interview will appease no one. In fact, I am surprised this has not happened yet! They both constantly take stands held by basically every powerful person in America while proclaiming themselves bold truth-tellers.
- Finally, someone asks the obvious question: Why does Gavin Newsom have a male-only podcast, especially since his wife's whole thing is about how women are underrepresented in media? The answer won't surprise you. www.yahoo.com/news/no-girl...
- "I don’t know who started this conventional wisdom that the Resistance 1.0 failed,” Levitsky said. “It was quite successful. It blunted Trump’s most abusive behavior. And it got us off on the wrong foot — believing in January 2025 that Resistance 1.0 failed, and we had to do something else.”
