I don’t know these people, but I think that I see what you’ve done there. 
Maybe it was always the case that popular “thinkers” were morons but history just forgot about them in favour of remembering the less popular people whose views stood the test of time. But today the thinkers who get attention are generally morons
Ezra Klein gets about 1/4 million listens a month. Rogan gets 190 million
Despite all your best efforts.
(Seriously, I hope he does pay you)
Its a fair jab 
The Meidas touch is gaining a lot of traction as an anti Trump podcast, as sort of like an opposite to Joe Rogan.
Ezra Klein would certainly not be exempted from that list of morons, in my opinion.
Another fucking dick…
This thread is incredible
https://x.com/elonconomy/status/1991266387374010636?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g
Interested in why. I know there is a large online constituency on the left who hate him, but that is largely a case of fighting shadows - criticizing the online idea of what he’s said rather than what he has
I don’t hate him but I think he’s a staunch centrist who supports the current establishment corporate Democrats. He has the ear of the Democratic leadership and uses that to tamper down popular policies into more conservative “middle ground”.
I don’t like his vision of the Democratic party. He wants more anti-Trump Republicans to jump to the Democrats and wants political campaigns to appeal to that demographic. Maybe you can argue itnwould be effective to peel away some Republicans but the two-fold issue is that you neglect the left (nothing new there for American politics) and what kind of politics are we encouraging with the “big tent” approach.
He advised Harris’ campaign directly to steer away from divisive issues like abortion, childcare and tran-rights which were all issues that excited the base when she was initially nominated and I think his influence played a big part in her messaging becoming so poor in the run up to the election.
He’s recently been out there again, in the wake of huge Democratic wins a couple of weeks ago, to advise Democrats to run anti-choice candidates in “pink” states. - he later rolled that back to only be about Red states. Again my thought is what the fuck good is a Democrat who has Republican values? At some point your party needs core unifying ideas to tie everything together. “I don’t like Trump” doesn’t mean you have a message.
TLDR: I think a he’s shill for billionaires and the corporate Democrats they own.
I wonder what sort of Dem party will come to the fore? If you go policy by policy, the positions of the likes of Sanders, AOC and Mamdani resonate with many, many people. But then they get labeled as socialists, or communists, and people shy away from that stuff in America. It’s a quandary.
My personal preference would be for America to move in the direction of universal healthcare, publicly funded education and college tuition, and some of the usual left leaning policies that would be readily accepted in Europe.
My suspicion is that America will get a Tony Blair sort in there after Trump, to the slight dismay of the real left wing, but still a much more satisfactory option than what we have right now under Trump.
I think it will be Gavin Newsom. He’s the next chapter for the Dems. The likes of AOC will probably have to wait, at least in terms of leadership at the very highest level.
Probably more fitting for the US politics thread, but I am amazed that so many assume that there will be any kind of free and fair elections in the US in the future.