it’s worth pointing out that which abstract, polled issues the public cares about and what *stories* the public cares about may be entirely different things, and the stories may matter much more. 1/

popularists of course will say that’s cope people use as an excuse to claim the public shares their priors. 2/

but popularists themselves don’t have a great track record or much evidence at all that their intuitions, *their* priors about how things work, are correct or useful. /fin