The question is why choose this topic to write too in a culture and climate here you have fascism legitimized by an opposition party. Yglesias acts as if the Dems lost the election and writes as such. His take would still be bad but editorially it would at least have some validity for justification in terms of "public interest".
I wasn't making a specific argument, just giving an off-the-cuff response to a writer who has an overinflated sense of self, who was also seen as not an especially good boss at Vox and not really worker-friendly, and I also think it's worth reminding everyone of people who supported the Iraq War trying to pass themselves as wise old men, or speaking as if they had the wisdom of the old-left. In fact, Yglesias was a Clintonian war-hawk (as was Ezra Klein).
If they offer an opinion or present a persona without a hint of self-criticism and self-awareness, then yes. Yglesias is offering a bog-standard critique against "identity politics" which is a total misunderstanding and using the latest issue to sharpen his knife simply because his particular brand of political analysis no longer has real currency or popularity among his readers. He's not offering analysis but a bruised ego.
People here criticize "arsonists coming in as firefighters" in describing Bush-Era Neocons now posing as latter-day "where did we go wrong" anti-Trump GOP...but that applies to the left as well, to Clintonian war-hawks. It's people like Matt Yglesias who bear responsibility for the "problems" as he understands it in the left in terms of polarization and generational rejection. And yet he doesn't own up to it, never owns up to his own mistakes. Their support for the Iraq War and the Clinton-era policies begat this huge series of problems in the left, which in America was overcome with considerable difficulty. Today Clintonism is at least for the time a spent force (happily so). Obama is now seen as the great redeemer of the Democrat party with Clinton recognized as the false dawn he truly was.
This brings me to the worst of them all, rat-faced traitor of the Labour Party, Tony Blair who wrote a self-aggrandizing Aunty Agony piece about the election:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...ft-he-planning
Another arsonist coming in posing as a firefighter, offering bad analysis, bad advice, and worse opinions. Not once does he own up to the fact that his policies fractured UK politics, that he destroyed Labour electorally with his blind and unnecessary support for the Iraq War and of course he doesn't in the wisdom of Walter Sobchak "stick-to-his-lane" by offering comments on US politics of which he hopelessly doesn't understand like railing against "Defund the Police" which
a) wasn't in any way a factor in the US elections 2020 to start with,
b) wasn't adopted or had purchase in the UK during the recent Council elections.
c) was some 6 months ago, and we live in a Post-Capitol Putsch landscape.
Trash like Blair and their brand of politics should never be validated again.