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He very much has that thing where he wants to demonstrate that he is open to the conversation and is not an ideologue and really started to embody this view from nowhere intellectualism. One of the things I've always liked about Bouie is that he comes off as just "he is who he says he is"

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Both Klein and (especially) Yglesias present this air of "I am an intellectual, please acknowledge it" though in different ways. This is in contrast to, say, Bouie, who starts with a set of principles and argues from there - admitting when he's wrong, but not retreating for the sake of conversation

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