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OT: American Politics

Posting a few excerpts of Nate’s Guardian Interview (for the three people who don’t hate him here)

>>>And while he fears a Trump win – “There were a lot of guardrails in place last time that prevented complete and utter disaster, but those guardrails have been weakened, right?” – he warns against painting it as an existential threat to democracy, at least as a political strategy. “The notion of basically holding voters hostage in that sense is very unappealing … Biden was like: ‘OK, sure, I may be running for president until I’m 86 and can barely form a complete sentence, but if you don’t vote for me, the country gets it’ – that’s a very unappealing message to swing voters … whereas Harris brings more joyfulness and is obviously a very talented woman”. He worries, though, that she has “retained too many of the Biden people who thought it was a good idea to keep running [him]. I guess she kind of had to.”

And a few words on Elon

>>>In Silver’s view, buying Twitter, now X, has gone to his head. “I think [it was] a pretty bad financial bet. But in terms of cultural influence, it has shifted the discourse rightward in the US among elites quite a bit. But, you know, you get on a winning streak, and I think you tend to get a bit cocky. The era when Elon could say, ‘Oh, I’m just a moderate’. I mean, we’re well past that… He’s been very pilled by right wing memes, some of his own making.”
 
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