Recorded a podcast with Ryan Devans of Tailors' Keep. We talked about how Asian manufacturing nowadays is often better than US manufacturing. This pissed off a bunch of people on Instagram, but I think shoring up US manufacturing requires facing hard facts. Pod preview: pod.link/blamo/episod...

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FWIW, I refer to this as "closing the hardball gap." It's the idea that asymmetric adherence to norms is itself destablizing, and that norm-breaking can/should be done in democracy's defense. This is a bit dated but it gets at the basic point:

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"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

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"Oh, don't be hysterical — next you'll say they're trying to crack down on independent news med—"

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