i found him infuriating for years, but i try to extend him a bit of grace now, all his friends have gone fash and he’s like, hey, what? 1/

i think he might revise himself here:

“Brandeis was a product of the Gilded Age, and things have changed since then. It's harder to hide wrongdoing now. And to get rich now you don't have to buy politicians the way railroad or oil magnates did…The gr8 concentrations of wealth I see around me in SV don't seem to be destroying democracy.”