Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

My favorite type of hot taker is the person who evolves right in the public eye from centrist pragmatic technocrat Blue Dog to Obama hope and change dem to Bernie stan to actually trashing Bernie for abandoning his base. Politics aside, that's how you Work the Spectrum

If you've got hundreds of hours on TV or dozens of articles constantly changing positions with each shifting of the take winds, more power to you. You're doing the work. I'm here for it

I still wear the same Converse as I did in high school but some of these hot take people shed their skin in the game more often than a snake. You love to see it

I like the vintage hot take people who have been around so long they have two decades of 5000 word New Republic essays opposing gay marriage but supporting partner benefits, then supporting civil unions, then supporting gay marriage, and now abolishing the family. Love an old pro

Ugh. "Dont you want a pundit who changes their opinion in face of evidence?" Why should ppl subsidize a dumbass's learning curve. "Dont you allow for personal growth?" Not when it simply mirrors hegemonic feeling. "Sinners must be allowed redemption." 'Sin' got them the byline.