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In Defense of Being Wildly Out of Touch

Source: slowboring.com

Mainstream political views in the 1990s were more sensible and closer to public opinion than today's overly complicated takes.
Modern pundits and academics push nuanced ideas that often confuse rather than clarify how politics really works.
Sticking to simple spatial models of left-right ideology gives a clearer picture of the last 25 years of American politics.

Matthew Yglesias argues that 1990s political commentary was smarter because it stuck to straightforward ideas about voter preferences on a left-right spectrum. Today's experts overcomplicate everything with asymmetrical nuances that pull away from what most people actually think. This matters because it leads to bad analysis of elections, policies, and history.