This guy -
Duncan Bowen Black (better known by his pseudonym Atrios) constantly provides the clearest, most cogent criticism of our dystopian mania for Coonsian "compromise" politics. Like this for example:
I keep saying this, but it's actually appropriate for Mitch McConnell to behave as he does (mostly). Doesn't mean I like him! He's a Republican! I don't like Republicans! But he's doing what an opposition is supposed to do.We don't have a parliamentary system, but we should and can be more like one, both in practice and in "our" understanding of how things are supposed to work. A contest between competing visions and governances is superior to endless compromises which please no one, and that was true even when those compromises sometimes actually happened. But they don't happen anymore, and that's ok!
A little more about Black from wikipedia:
His weblog is called Eschaton. Black was also a regular guest economics expert on Air America Radio's The Majority Report and is currently a regular commentator on Sam Seder's internet radio (Majority.fm) Majority Report and an op-ed contributor to USA Today.
After obtaining his BA from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Black obtained a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1999. He has worked at the London School of Economics, the Université catholique de Louvain, the University of California, Irvine, and, most recently, Bryn Mawr College. He is now a Senior Fellow at the media research group Media Matters for America.
He also makes the case regularly that Elon Musk is a fraud and a hustler.
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