Does Anyone Actually Like Ezra Klein?

Disaffected liberal shit, potentially harming the entire party in the process.

It is very easy to pile on Ezra Klein for his “Charlie Kirk did politics the right way” article, written about 24 hours after a public execution of a central conservative youth figure. Really the best answer to that column came from T. Coates, who asked him in a NYT podcast they did together: “Was silence not an option?” If you applied that question to 90% of social media posts after the death of Charlie Kirk, we’d be living in a much different world. I think we all know that.

Over the last maybe 10–15 years, Ezra Klein went from this kinda dorky journalist guy who did articles with a lot of charts in The Washington Post, then had a site called Vox where people (mostly liberals) could learn things and be more informed, and now, in this weird time of absolutely no central Democratic leader except maybe Gavin Newsom tweeting in ALL CAPS, he has filled this void where liberals look to him for guidance. In conversation with another classic liberal, David Remnick (who literally wrote the book on Obama), he says that he “takes a lot of lunches” with Democratic strategists. I bet he does.

But like, is this the guy we should be listening to if we’re trying to reclaim the culture war? It doesn’t seem so…