What Noah Smith thinks about politics
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6 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 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.
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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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