The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but theyโre still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. Thatโs bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.
Kevin DrumThe plain fact is that recent college grads arenโt in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told, they probably suffered a little less than most other groups.
Kevin DrumI hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.
Kevin DrumActually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldnโt have been enough if Trump hadnโt gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.
Kevin DrumI don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing the growth of income inequality, and so forth. If we could accomplish all this in a couple of years, I'd be delighted. But we can't.
Kevin Drum