What Noah Smith thinks about politics
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14 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Noah Smith has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWelfarism, Keynesianism, and tolerance toward mass migration are all being called into question by France's combination of unstoppable deficits, unreasonable popular demands, and rising right-wing politics.
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Their wordsEverything bad in American society, culture, and politics is partly a Russian op
- 8 days earlier
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Their wordsChris Rufo is literally out here arguing that getting drunk and blowing off tests is Traditional White Culture that needs to be protected from Brown Supremacy It's Robin DiAngelo but with the races swapped
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Their wordsRightists will scream "Colorblind meritocracy!" right up until the point where Indian people start doing well, at which point every rightist turns into Ibram Kendi
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Their wordsA lot of regular Republican voters are conservatives who want nothing to do with MAGA's little bumbling klepto-fascist putsch.
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Their wordsThe GOP had a golden opportunity to become a multiracial majority party and destroy the left for two generations, and instead they turned things over to the Claremont Nazis
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Their wordsMost partisans in both parties just want someone on their side who can win. They have no real ideology, no real issue stances, no real governing philosophy. They just want to beat the other team.
- 5 days earlier
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Their wordsKeep broadcasting the dipshit things they say. Warn regular people of the rot on the left.
- 2 days earlier
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Their wordsIt’s this pathological inability to understand alliances and coalition-building that will ultimately doom the New Right. Like the far Left, this is a movement built to exclude and divide and splinter — both because of the querulous personalities of rightists themselves, and because of the intransigence of a racial ideology that abhors any impurity.
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Their wordsThe New Right sees the world as a zero-sum collective competition between racial groups.
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Their wordsThis is why they will fail. They are not nation-builders; they will always splinter, divide, and find new internal enemies to attack.
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Their wordsAround the time liberalism gave way to "progressivism", people on the left started being wrong about a ton of stuff. Back in 2010, Democrats were right about maybe 85% of things. Now it's like...30%? With Republicans at maybe 15%?
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Their wordsWhat the United States needs, now more than ever, is general disengagement from the Middle East — an end to military adventures, a dialing back of support for Middle Eastern “allies” (including Israel), and a forceful rejection of Middle Eastern issues in American domestic politics.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsMore pragmatically, nations without cultural unity have difficulty providing public goods; politics tends to break down into an ethnic spoils system instead of being run for the benefit of the masses.
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