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Nyhan is right: Obama’s 1980’s drug use will be assessed more harshly than that of a comparable white candidate.
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A perceptive friend of the franchise once called Nyhan’s writing style “casually frantic” ergo both florid, woodenly glib, and all too often utterly unreadable.
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Maybe that's why political strategist Brendan Nyhan has been preemptively trying to stifle criticism with an approach that blends cogent arguments with a barrage of derision and dismissal.
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Nyhan worries that Obama has internalized the "phony narrative of Reagan's presidency," and says this "is likely to lead him astray."
Do Americans really hate government? Greg Sargent 2011
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(In an even more Orwellian phrasing, Nyhan even labels Markos Moulitsas 'advocacy for widely popular policies "extremism.")
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Nyhan even described President Obama as "a victim of circumstance."
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Nyhan: Besides big pump-priming stimulus measures (which are now ruled out due to the deficit) ….
Matthew Yglesias » Was Health Reform a Political Blunder? How Could We Know? 2010
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Rather, as I noted below, it seems more and more obvious that Obama and Dems are placing a heavy bet on the very phenomenon Nyhan pinpoints here: People suddenly start to like government once officials start talking specifics about how to downsize it in the real world.
Do Americans really hate government? Greg Sargent 2011
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Nyhan: Besides big pump-priming stimulus measures (which are now ruled out due to the deficit) ….
Matthew Yglesias » Was Health Reform a Political Blunder? How Could We Know? 2010
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Maybe that's why political strategist Brendan Nyhan has been preemptively trying to stifle criticism with an approach that blends cogent arguments with a barrage of derision and dismissal.
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