Matt Yglesias Will Claim The Sky is Green and Kamala Harris is a Communist Before He Admits He Was Wrong.
The Vox founder is a case study of everything wrong with the liberal elite.
The second election of Donald Trump shook the Democratic Universe to its core. As the manifestation of Very Serious American centrism, liberal pundits expected the Biden Presidency, followed by the Kamala Harris campaign, to defeat the racist game show host, prove once and for all his 2016 election was a fluke, and put the adults back in charge. They also viewed it as a chance to dispel critiques from the Party’s left wing, disproving that a Bernie Sanders-style working-class message was needed to defeat Donald Trump. Biden’s 2020 primary bid ran against the left, urging Obamacare improvements instead of Medicare for All and pledging never to condition military shipments to Israel.1 In office, Biden governed as a moderate and respected Washington’s sacred norms. He invited Republicans into the Build Back Better negotiations, let the parliamentarian kill a minimum wage increase, and refused to even consider that Israel was in the wrong.
When Harris stepped in as the nominee, nothing changed. She retained Biden’s campaign managers, who reprinted the lawn signs and kept to their strategy. Infamously, Harris told The View she wouldn’t have done a single thing different than President Biden. So, when Americans chose Trump over the heiress to Biden’s poll-tested and Democratic consultant-approved presidency, the liberal political establishment felt their world shatter beneath them. Harris was supposed to end Trumpism once and for all! How could this happen? Immediately, they scrambled for a scapegoat.
The leaders of the Harris campaign — Jen O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter — began their next job interview on Pod Save America (all at once to avoid blaming each other), stating the loss was everyone’s fault but their own. Lindy Li, named one of WIRED’s top election influencers and a DNC Finance Committee member directly responsible for the Harris campaign ending $20 million in debt, ran to Fox News, blaming her poor financial management on alleged deceit and wokeness.2 With their political worldview crumbling before their eyes, elected Democrats called to ban trans girls from sports as if J.V. volleyball were America’s most pressing issue.
While the entire Democratic Cinematic Universe is scrambling to lay the blame on everyone but themselves, few have made more outlandish claims than my fellow Substacker,
. If you’re unfamiliar with Yglesias, he’s the co-founder of Vox. He left the publication in 2020 to start Slow Boring, one of Substack’s most popular political publications. With close to 200,000 subscribers, he’s raking in around $500,000 annually, in addition to his other ventures. But Yglesias is not just an ordinary blogger who got lucky and struck it big. What makes him unique is that he is well-connected to the upper world of Democratic politics. He has personal relationships with top Democratic officials, including the former President. As a result, his work had a tangible impact on the policies put out by the Biden-Harris Administration and, by extension, the Harris campaign. And yet, mere hours after Harris conceded to Trump, Matt Yglesias began an aggressive spin campaign to retcon the Democratic ticket as a far-left project far departed from his centrist ideals. By doing so, he’s attempting to preserve his image as a political operator and the sweet, sweet Substack cash that comes with it. Not only are Yglesias’s antics an unfathomable act of selfishness and cynicism, but they also indicate the larger problems within the centrist political establishment, which ultimately dooms the Democratic Party to electoral defeat and leaves Americans vulnerable to Republican fascism.
According to a report from digital strategist Rob Blackie, over a quarter of Biden’s staffers followed Yglesias on social media, making him the Biden team’s third-most popular political writer behind Nate Silver (44.4%) and Maggie Haberman (36.8%).3 As they were interested in Yglesias’s ideas, it’s no surprise the Biden Administration looked to Slow Boring for policy suggestions. During the 2021 Build Back Better negotiations, it was reported that Yglesias’s articles were directly informing the proposed legislation.4
But Yglesias’s contribution to the Biden presidency wasn’t a few essays forwarded between West Wing interns. As reported by The Washington Post in September 2022, Yglesias had the ear of Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, who took an interest in his economic and monetary policy suggestions.5
That same month, Yglesias published the article below. While he promoted the piece as an interview with Yellen, it’s more of an argument favoring Yellen’s policies. Yglesias writes that Yellen told him “XYZ,” and then he explains why she’s correct. Clearly, the two were ideologically aligned.
However, Yglesias’s LinkedIn connections go higher than the cabinet. Last July, Yglesias finally admitted he’d been wrong about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. During the mea culpa, he wrote:
“I knew that I had talked to President Biden and that the conversation gave me no doubts about his capabilities.”
He added a footnote to the above line, which reads:
“Unfortunately, I cannot say more about this due to the terms of the conversation.”
Having direct access to the sitting President of the United States shows that Yglesias was not just some writer a few White House staffers followed on X, The Everything App. Either the President asked to speak to Yglesias, likely because he’d been hearing about him from his staffers and Treasury Secretary, or Yglesias had the connections to contact the President, who accepted his call. When Biden dropped out and Harris took up the mantle, Yglesias’s influence and support continued uninterrupted. He describes himself as “friendly” with the leaders of Future Forward, a Democrat Super PAC that spent over $700 million running ads for Kamala Harris in the final months of the campaign.
I’m going to great lengths to establish Matt Yglesias’ connections with the White House (and the subsequent Harris campaign), because, since the Democrats lost in November, Yglesias has been doing everything in his power to pretend he’s just another humble internet user who bears no responsibility for the electoral calamity that handled Donald Trump a trifecta.
While most of us spent the day after the election planning how we would resist the incoming fascist presidency, Matt Yglesias was focused on a more important issue: salvaging his self-image as the Smartest Man in Politics. On November 6th, Yglesias scribbled a “Commonsense Democrat Manifesto” into his iPhone Notes app and posted it on social media. Later published on his Substack, the Manifesto insinuates Kamala Harris lost because she and Joe Biden were left wing radicals too extreme for the American public. In it, Yglesias urges future Democrat candidates to discard progressivism and adopt “common sense” policies. Where can future candidates learn these sacred common sense policies that will lead them to glory and fame? By listening to Matt Yglesias, of course. (Funny how that always seems to be his solution.)
While Yglesias presents the Manifesto’s nine points as a new, original ideas, they are nothing more than a regurgitation of mainstream Democratic practice. If I asked ChatGPT to summarize the policies of the 21st century Democratic Party, it would be indistinguishable from Yglesias’s work. For example, point three urges Democrats to slow down on fighting climate change.
Climate change — and pollution more broadly — is a reality to manage, not a hard limit to obey.
This is a weird thing to write when the Biden administration approved more oil drilling permits than Trump in their respective first two years in office.6 That’s not to say the standard Democrat is as bad on climate as the average Republican who has “Drill Baby Drill” tattooed on their chest. But Yglesias’ suggestion that Democratic politicians are sacrificing a 21st-century way of life for a Green New Deal is factually false. The same smoke-and-mirrors is present in the rest of his Manifesto, which, among other things, scolds Democrats for dismissing economic growth, prioritizing immigrants over American citizens, and succumbing to DEI mania. In these regards, Yglesias is so wrong that it almost feels bad to disprove him. Almost.
According to the World Bank, GDP grew 29% during the first three years of Biden’s presidency ($21.4 trillion in 2020 to $27.7 trillion in 2023), and even higher if we include the estimates for 2024.7 As for immigration, Kamala Harris notoriously tried to outflank Trump on the right by blaming him for killing a bipartisan border security deal. Quite famously, she went to Guatemala and told potential migrants “do not to come” to the United States.8 Per DEI, the only people who believe corporate hiring procedures and university admission standards are controlled by the Democratic Party are nursing home patients spending their life savings buying Freedom Coin from advertisements on Sean Hannity. While the Democrats are known for over-the-top social justice language, that’s not a left wing value. It’s an attempt to give the illusion of progressivism to cover up the centrist governance Matt Yglesias advocates for.
To pretend Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were a de-growth, open-borders administrations is a brazen lie: it’s literally what Trump claims, and we all know he’s full of shit.
As you can probably tell, Yglesias is taking his arguments straight from conservative propaganda. “Democrats lost because they forced Black Rock to hire transgender illegal immigrants” is something you’d hear from Joe Rogan, not a serious critique of the Democratic Party. In his rush to find a boogeyman to explain why his dream campaign lost, Yglesias copied the right’s outlandish claims about “radical left Democrats,” brushed them up with language fitting his Very Serious newsletter, and clicked publish. To be honest, if Yglesias stopped there, I probably wouldn’t even care. I’m sure I’ve published under-developed Substack articles, so I’m not going to make a fuss about one poor post from five months ago. But Mr. Yglesias didn’t stop there. Instead, he’s taken it upon himself to get the Streisand Effect renamed after him.
Rewriting the ideological makeup of the Biden Administration and Harris campaign to absolve himself of blame has been Yglesias’s main contribution to the contemporary political discourse. (Which is unfortunate, because there’s a lot of bad stuff going on right now.) During a January interview with Vox, Yglesias stood by his claim and offered the following explanation of how the Democratic Party has moved away from its working-class base. While this would have been the optimal time to each humble pie and admit he should incorporate more worker-focused policies into his ideology, such as championing the Protect the Right to Organize Act, Yglesias chose to focus on something else…
“Left-wing people expressed a lot of concern in recent years that Democrats were going to abandon the working class substantively, as a result of attracting this more upscale voting base… And I think on economic policy, that really hasn’t happened… To the extent that the party has abandoned the working class as it’s grown more affluent, it’s done so on climate — by not caring that much about people’s energy costs — and it’s really been on public order: It’s not affluent suburbanites who bear the consequences, if shoplifting explodes out of control in urban neighborhoods.”9
You heard the man, folks! The Democrats have lost working-class voters by… not cracking down on shoplifting. That’s so fucking stupid teachers would hold back a fourth grader for saying it. As a labor organizer, who actually talks to workers instead of imagining them, I can tell you, struggling working-class voters care about workplace protections, increasing wages, and better healthcare. Not shoplifting.
If you’re wondering what the hell Yglesias is talking about, he’s referring to the new-debunked shoplifting media panic driven by right wingers and The National Retail Federation (NRF), a lobbyist group for big box stores. As conservatives trying to paint Democrat-run cities as hell holes with videos of alleged shoplifting rings, the NRF amplified the hysteria with a “report” that claimed organized theft accounted for over $94 billion in losses, about half of all inventory lost in 2021. But as we now know, the entire story was false.
I found one source that said the following:
Evidence of a spike in shoplifting, it turns out, was mostly anecdotal. In fact, there’s little data to suggest that there’s a nationwide problem in need of an immediate response from city councils or state legislatures. Instead, what America seems to be experiencing is less of a shoplifting wave and more of a moral panic.
As it turned out, organized shoplifting didn’t come close to costing businesses that much: With a few exceptions, major US cities actually saw lower shoplifting rates in 2022 than in 2019, and in December, the National Retail Federation retracted its alarming claim.
Not only was Yglesias’s claim of shoplifting hurting the working class not true, but neither was his suggestion that Democrats didn’t respond to the media stories. The article continues:
“Lawmakers from both major parties called for, and in some cases even implemented, more punitive law enforcement policies aimed at bucking the apparent trend.”10
And here’s the real kicker. The article I’m citing that disproves Yglesias’s claim that shoplifting was a concern of the working class is from — I’ll give you three guesses — Vox, published a full year before Yglesias’s interview. To recap, the publication Matthew Yglesias founded debunked the shoplifting hysteria, only for him to tell the same publication Kamala Harris was a left-wing radical who lost the working class because she secretly liked shoplifting. Not only did the lobbyist group driving this panic retract its claim two years ago, but Kamala Harris’s career as an aggressive prosecutor is well-known. The former Vice President is many things, but soft on crime is not one of them.
This is the exact hubris that infects the Democratic Party and makes it unable to meet Americans’ need, inevitably leading to Republican control. It’s true Trump made gains amongst the working class. If Yglesias and the thousands of other DNC consultants who share his defeated political ideas and egg shell were earnestly looking for a solution, they’d ask the guy who has championed people-friendly policies for his entire career for help. But as that would require the Brooks Brothers-wearing Democratic ghouls who think showing a White House visitor’s badge to a girl at the bar will get them laid to admit the left had merit, they tack right and end up at absurd claims like, “Harris lost Pennsylvania because she didn’t protect Target’s net profits.” Instead of listening to Bernie (who is the most popular active politician in the country, by the way11), Yglesias has taken special ire with the Vermont Senator’s “Stop Oligarchy” tour, seeing the massive crowds draw by a leftist as a threat to his revisionist history.
To state the obvious, Sanders’s politics are not things “all Democrats support.” Obama tried to cut Social Security by recalculating cost of living adjustments (COLA) but was stopped by a coalition led by… Bernie Sanders.12 While the Vermont Senator is drawing sold-out crowds years before the next election with calls to overturn Citizens United and shift power from oligarchs like Musk to the American people, centrist Democrats like Ritchie Torres are going in the opposite direction, begging for crypto campaign donations and doing little to challenge the unfettered accumulation of capital that inevitably creates an oligarchy. I mention Congressman Torres for no reason in particular…
While Yglesias sounds incredibly dumb in his attempt to rewrite the history of the 2024 election, I do not believe this is the case. He’s intelligent, though not as much as he thinks. Instead, what we’re witnessing during the Yglesias meltdown is a representation of the panic currently sweeping through the Democratic establishment. It’s a fleeting attempt to grasp any straw that will let them preserve their careers, self-images, and ostensible justification for being close to power.
For decades the centrist establishment have positioned themselves as the adults in the political room. They believe they are the smartest people in politics, who can guarantee Democratic trifectas as long as the liberal party listens to them and ignores the loony leftist ideas such as “worker power” and “Palestinian human rights.” When the administration Yglesias had contributed to collapsed and his ideal political campaign lost to a man who can’t tell the difference between an insane asylum and political asylum, Yglesias decided it was better to change reality rather than admit the centrist world view, which he subscribes to, was flawed. That’s how we get statements such as this, scorning leftists like myself for describing the Harris campaign as a “moderate’s dream.”
However, I’m confident calling Harris’s candidacy Matt Yglesias’s centrist dream campaign. How could I make such a claim? Because Matt Yglesias said so.
Following the Democratic Convention in August 2024, Yglesias wrote an article congratulating the Harris campaign for its Yglesias-approved message.
“I have mixed feelings about the 2024 Democratic National Convention, mostly because I liked it so much.
Watching on television from afar, I saw the Democratic Party of yore represented by the Obamas and the Clintons delivering classic versions of their messages. And I saw the Democratic Party of the future represented by Pete Buttigieg, Wes Moore, Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro, Jasmine Crockett, and an all-around deep bench of political talent. I saw a goofy, fun, balanced ticket in Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. And I saw a message that was obsessed with abortion rights, health care, and beating Donald Trump. The themes were joy and freedom, the economic message was aspirational, the visions of diversity emphasized inclusion and equality, and the discussion of environmental issues was overwhelmingly focused on clean air. We got the version of Harris that we should have had in 2020: the career prosecutor who put criminals in jail and, as attorney general, tackled a wide range of wrongdoing and who fundamentally believes in imposing sanctions on bad actors. It was a great show that demonstrated seriousness of purpose.”
These are not the words of a man worried the ticket is too “left wing.” It’s the obsequies praise of a pundit who believes this is the pinnacle of political strategy, a way to, as he titled the article, “Ride the Vibes to Victory.” Remember how Yglesias has spent the last five months claiming the Democrats lost because they are “too left-wing” and slaves to the woke mob? Well, let’s hear what August 2024 Yglesias thought. He continues:
You saw very clearly, in their analytical moments, that the leaders of the Democratic Party know that the American people are not obsessed with the specter of warmer weather, worry that Dems might be too left wing, do not want to overthrow neoliberalism, think that Donald Trump is a really bad guy, and would like Democrats to be chill and normal so they can vote for them and freeze out MAGA psychos, without worrying that this means big changes to their personal lives. Political revolution? Probably not. Keeping Social Security and Medicare on track while reducing the cost of widely used prescription drugs? Absolutely.
Democrats draped themselves in the flag, in the actually existing nature of the American people, and in mainstream values. It was great.
Voila! Before the election, Matt Yglesias described the Harris campaign as rejecting left-wing progressivism. He explicitly praised “the leaders of the Democratic Party” for not going hard on climate friendly policies (“the American people are not obsessed with the specter of warmer weather”), not being left wing (“worry that Dems might be too left wing”), and willing to uphold America’s economic status quo (“do not want to overthrow neoliberalism”) — which are the exact points he claimed Harris didn’t do three months later in his Common Sense Democrats Manifesto. Naturally, this raises the question of why Yglesias is willing to debase himself and pretend the Kamala Harris campaign, which he openly championed as matching “the actually existing nature of the American people,” was a Maoist Red Guard faction arming for violent revolution.
While I don’t mean to excuse his childish antics, blaming the left for Kamala Harris’s loss was Yglesias’s only option. Just like centrist Democratic consultants, the Slow Boring author can’t suggest the Democrats pivot to a populist strategy of progressive economics and human-rights-driven foreign policy. Doing so would drastically reduce his influence, both amongst the common folk and the high-paid DNC staffers. If he admitted a worker-first strategy that ran contrary to neoliberal principles could help the Democrats win, then his readers would ditch him and find publications that promote populist, worker-focused policies. (There’s a subscribe button up top if that’s the what you’re looking for.) Unable to admit that Democrats could improve their electoral chances by running on something like universal healthcare, reversing Citizens United, or free public college, Yglesias is boxed into a corner. In this regard, he’s just like one of the many Zionist Democrats eyeing a 2028 presidential bid in a party that now supports Palestinians over Israelis by almost a three-to-one margin.13
While Matt Yglesias is irritating, my personal distaste for the man is not why I’m writing about him. Instead, I find Yglesias to represent what is wrong with the liberal pundit class, political centrism, and, ultimately, the Democratic Party. As evidenced by his pre-election, over-the-top praise for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, followed by a whiplash-inducing pivot mere hours after the Democrats lost, it’s abundantly clear Matt Yglesias stands for nothing. He has no political principles and no guiding view of where he wants to take America. After helping the Biden team develop its economic policy, he didn’t even have the courage to stand by his political project in a dark hour. This lack of conviction is likely shocking, but comes as no surprise to those familiar with Yglesias’s personal antics. As he’s stated many times, Matt Yglesias believes political writing and commentary is a vehicle for personal advancement and notoriety, not implementing ideas that improve material conditions. In the below tweet, he suggests aspiring writers simply “convert” their political beliefs to stand out. The only person who could suggest such insanity is someone who doesn’t have any deeply-held political beliefs.
It would even be inaccurate to say Yglesias cares about the Democrats winning and bulwarking against MAGA fascism. While we frequently hear liberal pundits defend their politics on the grounds of centrism is the best way to win elections (as Yglesias claimed in his post-convention essay), that theory was proven wrong by the November election. By Yglesias’s pre-election admission, the Biden-Harris camp was perfect centrism, a mix of corporate-friendly policies with new faces. And. It. Lost. BADLY.
If Yglesias and company were driven by a desire to win, that would have taken the days after the election to look inward and reconcile what their political ideology missed. The obvious answer is to incorporate leftist policies into their platform to build a center-left coalition to win the midterms and the 2028 Presidential election. That’s what a serious, well-meaning political operator would do. Instead, Yglesias, like many of his friends now interviewing on the hill, has blamed everyone but themselves and tried to mind wipe their audiences, Men In Black-style.
Furthermore, he embodies the center’s inability to see politics through a human level, always prioritizing The Metrics over human empathy. In April 2013, a factory in Savar, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 workers and injuring another 2,500.14 A report from Amnesty International called the tragedy “most shocking recent example of business-related human rights abuse,” as workers had voiced concerns about the building’s safety but were forced in by management.15 As bodies were still being pulled from the rubble, Yglesias wrote an argument against the call for unified global safety standards that would have presented the tragedy. Why? Because the Bangladeshi are poor, so they need to work in deadly factories to attract foreign capital. If you think I’m exaggerating, you can read his words for yourself.
As one of his former Vox coworkers claimed, Yglesias isn’t publishing controversial hot takes to stand out in the content crowd. He elevates economic dogmatism over his personal relationships, insisting that someone else should wash his dishes because of company ROI or whatever.
What’s truly sad is that Yglesias cannot fathom why anyone would use politics to better the human condition. Whenever he encounters someone who cares more about lives than numbers on a graph (typically leftists that explain why he’s wrong), he accuses them of being mentally ill.
You don’t need to be a psychologist to realize this man is a blood-boiling narcissist. Not only does he show no concern for human life, but he’s also willing to blatantly lie about his previous work to insist he’s right and thinks anyone who disagrees with him is suffering from cognitive decline. And if this condition were limited to a blogger that I could end all interaction with the press of the all-powerful Twitter mute button, that would be the extent of my thoughts on Matt Yglesias.
Unfortunately, this is not the case.
People like Matt Yglesias are the reason Donald Trump is using the White House lawn as a Tesla dealership. When the American people look at the Democrats, they see a party that stands for nothing — that cares about no one or no thing, only getting elected. Obama promised change, then bailed out Wall Street. Biden campaigned on a public healthcare option, then ditched it when he moved in to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (Though his brain is mush, so maybe he did just forget.) The American people heard a lot about the sacred International Rules-Based Order from Democrats from 2021 to 2023. But apparently the Order has a clause that lets Israel make paper airplanes out of the Geneva Conventions and doesn’t consider Palestinians as humans. For decades Democrats said queer lives should be protected. Wait, never mind. They’re banning trans kids from the chess club. In November 2022, I stood in the back of the IBEW Local 68 union hall and listened to teary-eyed railroad workers ask the head of the Colorado AFL-CIO why the most “pro-union president in history” was breaking their strike. He didn’t have an answer.
This is why people like Matt Yglesias cannot defeat Donald Trump and protect America from the fascist surge. For over half a century, neoliberal centrists have controlled the Democratic Party, chastising everyone to the left of Bill Clinton as unserious and unable to win elections, while getting rich in the process. And look where it got us. Every campaign message was meticulously poll-tested and every ad was run through too many focus groups to count. And yet, Republicans control all three branches of government and are disappearing people into Guantanamo Bay for criticizing Israel. Meanwhile, the House minority leader is mad we expect him to cancel his book tour to fight back, and Matt Yglesias is doing interview after interview saying insane shit about shoplifting being the main issue of the the election. Who knows what he’ll say next. Probably something about how college campus protestors are a threat to national security or some other bullshit.
If Matt does read this, I’m sure he’ll call me mentally sick and state there’s no guarantee my socialist politics would have defeated Trump. And to be true, that’s fair. We don’t know if a leftist, pro-working class message and candidacy could defeat Donald Trump. However, what we do know for a fact is that Matt Yglesias’s politics of centrist messaging and neoliberal economics, lost to Trump. Twice.
For those reading this who are weary the leftist progressivism Yglesias warns against might not be accepted by the American people, let me ask you this: What do you have to lose? Thanks to people like Matt Yglesias, the answer is nothing.
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This is not a strong critique; it exaggerates his views to mock them, ignores that campaigns and situations change over time, and it's a little too full of spit words. It may be possible to trim it down to a more moderate and decent critique, but it'd take some work and intellectual humility the author at least doesn't exhibit here.
The Biden Administration taking policy ideas from the Slow Boring newsletter is profoundly depressing.