Not enough attention paid to the fact that the Passionate Leftist critique of Matt Yglesias (that he’s a cynical opportunist who moves into and out of scenes and positions as their popularity waxes and wanes) and the Professional Progressive one (that he needs to “read the room” better) are directly opposed

My take is as the third generation of a writing dynasty that came out of midcentury NYC Communism he does, in fact, have a good sense of how to usefully advance his positions and interests by tailoring his efforts to the shifting correlation of forces in the discursive realm. That the Passionate Leftists are onto something, he is reading the room, and the Professional Progressives have just noticed him moving away from their consensus on that basis.