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Progressive politics has a failure mode of treating hard technical and coordination problems as purely political fights to win.

Drawn from what Matthew Yglesias said

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climate change Warming and what would actually move it: emissions, carbon, and the difference between a gesture and a lever.

politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.

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  1. Matthew Yglesias Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American…
    I think a huge failure mode for progressive politics is looking at a difficult problem like climate change that can only be addressed through a mix of hard international coordination problems and hard technical problems, only to decide that it's really just a political question of beating the fossil fuel industry.

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