{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "You haven\u2019t done a hatchet job in ages. Richard Hanania, Robin Hanson, Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, other?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/693370758844612608/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>You haven\u2019t done a hatchet job in ages. Richard Hanania, Robin Hanson, Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, other?</p></div>\n<p>Uhhh\u2026</p><p><b>Josh Barro</b> I first noticed as a Matt Yglesias supporting character second to Michael Tae Sweeney</p><p>With Trump he was like &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t be a Republican anymore&rdquo; but he is a pointillist portrait of all the reasons people couldn&rsquo;t be Democrats anymore since 1995 if not 1985</p><p>He was proud of being a gay man in conservative circles and it was kind of hilarious how this wasn&rsquo;t left-style @gaywonk shit but being accepted as gay in environments where conservatives would go into reverie about what made men attractive and he could interrupt with authority to say &ldquo;no really, this man <i>is/isn&rsquo;t</i> attractive&rdquo;</p><p>Which I appreciated all the more after the personality change when I realized I could do the same thing, and Matt Yglesias had left Vox so we didn&rsquo;t have to hope to regroup around Jesse fucking Singal</p>"}