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Paraphrasing: along with a dozen other pressing issues, anti-trust was out of scope for this book.

> He is not arguing broadly against the political left...

Yes and: NIMBY vs YIMBY is (mostly) olds vs youngs, rather than partisanship. Witness the coalition behind the Montana Miracle (recent pro-housing legislation).

So far. As you know, most positions eventually get coded as left or right, as needed, to defend the corptacracy.


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tptacek08/01/2025

There really is an internal struggle in the Democratic party (totally natural after a major election loss!) and people are just inclined to read everything as taking one side or the other in it. Ironically, Klein and Thompson really tried to go out of their way not to take either side; in fact, most of the oxen that get gored in the book are establishment Democrats!