This post of his last week, approvingly linking to Tyler Cowan and his claim that immigration doesn’t depress wages – without distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration – was the light-bulb moment.
OK with illegal immigration depressing wages? Hiding that fact by refusing to talk about illegal immigration? Check?
OK with “free” trade but won’t ever talk about fair trade? Check?
An Iraq war hawk who never really has apologized for his stupidity? Check.
Democratic Leadership Council, American neoliberal, however exactly you want to parse it, Drum is it.
Of course, so is his employer.
How WM ever settled on him, I don’t know. Atrios (Duncan Black) has government experience and an economics graduate degree. Josh Marshall had a history master’s and journalism experience before starting TPM. Don’t start me on Orange Satan.
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