Okay, let me unpack this. On Sunday, Ezra published a really stupid column, Why a Middle-Class Lifestyle Remains Out of Reach for So Many, which, among other things, quoted from a really stupid article in the Atlantic, The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America: In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded,…
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Ross versus Ezra: No way! Your crazies are way crazier than our crazies!
Ross Douthat picks a fight with Ezra Klein over whether Obama Derangement Syndrome is more intense than Bush Derangement Syndrome.Klein links BDS to 9/11, but struggles to find comparable causality for ODS: “Bush Derangement Syndrome sought extraordinary explanations for extraordinary events; Obama Derangement Syndrome seeks extraordinary explanations for an ordinary presidency.” Sniffs Ross, “This … does…