The title of the Frank opinion piece is terrible — sabotage, I think, by editors at the Times. The piece literally does not use the word “elite”, not once, beyond the title that they slapped on it. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/o...

I gotta say, the exuberant dunking of the piece crowding my timeline reinforces rather than challenges the thesis. The timeline doth protest too much. 2/

Why is it so painful to wonder if Democrats’ repeated choice to downplay New-Deal-style liberalism and run on a business-friendly optimistic centrism may have played a role in Harris’ loss (and Clinton’s)? 3/

(The tragedy, of course, is that the Biden-Harris Administration *governed* in the tradition of New-Deal-style liberalism. But they were shy about touting business-controversial achievements like successful antitrust suits. They did the actual work, but preferred to talk about other things.) /fin