Goobledygook

On Twitter today, Ezra Klein (whom I follow) tweeted this article from Vox.com.  It is rather lengthy, and I guess its purpose is to say that leftist politics are worthless for the defeat of Trumpism. The problem is, after slogging through the article, I am not left with any indication as to what exactly is worth doing. Perhaps it's because there are too many passages like this one:

"This isn’t to say that there aren’t drawbacks to European welfare states. There’s real evidence that excessive regulation can stymie innovation and make it harder to start new firms, and that some welfare state labor protections (like the notorious French laws limiting corporations’ ability to fire employees) can make doing business maddeningly difficult."

This is the kind of meaningless blah-blah you expect to hear on CNBC's Squawk Box. Let's see..."real evidence"?..."excessive regulation"?..."innovation"?( ah, yes, one can always pull out the "stymie innovation" card to justify almost any point)..."maddeningly difficult"?  There is so much meaningless fluff packed onto this one paragraph that it's hard to take the whole thing seriously.

If the purpose of this piece is to convince progressives that political success is only to be achieved through more tacking to the right (i.e., the political equivalent of "we had to burn the village to save it"), then the author is wasting my time. I will trust The Nation, Jacobin, and other outlets to discuss strategies that are actually worth pursuing.