Ezra Klein is someone who has a large number of people who follow him and is doing his level best to help the MAGA cult defeat Joe Biden in November.
From the Huffington Post;
Ezra Klein, a prominent liberal columnist for The New York Times, published an audio essay Friday making his case against President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, saying he should withdraw from the race and allow delegates to pick from a slate of candidates with a better shot at defeating Donald Trump in November.
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Ezra Klein certainly didn’t think that the 2020 election was the “Most Important.” Below is what he wrote the month before the 2020 presidential election:
“There’s just one month left before the most important election of our lifetime,” Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tweeted in early October.
Two days later, Sen. Bernie Sanders backed him up. “This is the most important election, not only in our lifetime but in the modern history of our country,” he said in Michigan.
In 2016, it was Donald Trump deploying the cliché. “This is by far the most important vote you’ve ever cast for anyone at any time,” he said.
I won’t be coy with my view: I think the most important election of my lifetime was 2000, and I’ll defend that view in this piece. But more interesting than the parlor game is the framework of this debate. What makes something the most important election of a lifetime? How would we know?
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I had never heard of him, and even though I subscribe to the New York Times, his podcast never caught my interest. Today, I did stop to listen for a few minutes and stopped it as I felt it was nothing but gibberish. As soon as I heard the beginning, I knew where he was heading. Then, later today, I saw an article about what he said on the Huffington Post and decided to find out about this self-proclaimed political guru. He is thirty-nine and has so many years of political experience (according to himself); wow, all that at thirty-nine. I am sick and tired of the right-wing fifty-two-year-old, who is often quoted (Elon Musk). The right has the fifty-two-year-old, and the left has thirty-nine-year-old folks full of wisdom.
What Ezra is doing is providing fodder for the MAGA folks. They are always looking for valuable idiots to quote.
Why is the elite such a nasty word? Because they talk and write where no one but another elite may understand or at least pretend to understand. Below is a short passage from another expert contradicting Klein. Why can’t they do things for the average person to understand?
The bottom line of Klein’s argument is that polarization was driven fundamentally by race. The Republican Party has become the home of angry white voters anxious that the United States is turning into a “majority minority” society, as California already has, a reality epitomized by the election of Barack Obama.
There is no question that race played an important part in the 2016 election and that for many Trump voters, cultural identity was a more significant factor than economic self-interest. It is otherwise impossible to explain why so many working-class whites supported Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare, a policy that benefited them above all.
But cultural identity is fed by many factors besides race, and understanding this complexity is very important if the Democrats hope to win back the Oval Office and Congress. Failure to appreciate the legitimate grounds for resentment by populist voters is a general failure of liberals everywhere, from Turkey and Hungary to Britain and the United States, and one of the reasons they keep losing elections.
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There is one passage in the article that explains the Kleins and Musks of the world.
The media, and especially social media, thrives on virality; it no longer reports news but creates news based on what sells.