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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Liam Donovan‏Verified account @LPDonovan Feb 16
      Replying to @billscher

      Not sure I buy that. If that were the case you'd see McCarthy or McConnell or their proxies leaning into this. Seems more like legislative entrepreneurship where pols with less collective interests sense opportunity.

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    2. Bill Scher‏Verified account @billscher Feb 16
      Replying to @LPDonovan

      Sure, I didn't mean to suggest this was a firm party-wide conclusion. And neither McCarthy nor McConnell are entrepreneurial pols! But the involvement of Cotton, as deep red potential 2024er, suggests this is more than a Group of 10-esque sentiment.

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    3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @billscher @LPDonovan

      Basically, Rs could support Manchin’s $11 min wage increase, force Biden to settle for it, take full co-credit for it/stand behjnd Biden at bill signing, and give their candidates something to run on in ‘22. But Ryanism rules. Had this discussion with @baseballcrank a week or so

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    4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      but he couldn’t concede, just as a matter of strategic politics, this was remotely possible. It’s sitting their for them—and even Reagan saved social security! But if you really hate regulated labor markets/the New Deal that much, then ok—you’ve got nothing economically at all to

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    5. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      Provide for a working class voting bloc at all. Same with the child care stuff. Tax cuts for the rich is helpful. And deregulation may appeal to small business activists (and mega donors of course), but most people are wage earners, not petit bourgeoise.

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    6. Bill Scher‏Verified account @billscher Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @LPDonovan @baseballcrank

      I would think Republicans could get behind a deal with up-front small biz goodies, and slow phase-in for a min wage of around $11-12.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @billscher @LPDonovan @baseballcrank

      You would think, yes. But Dan doesn’t think that, NR, generally, doesn’t think that, AEI doesn’t that, Heritage doesn’t think that, the WSJ Ed board doesn’t think that. If you would prefer the minimum wage doesn’t exist at all, you can’t swallow the idea of increasing it.

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    8. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      Like Dan’s instructive here—and I pick on him to make a point about policy options in the party that Liam would recognize. He started by trying to trap me into the most ultra position—instant, national $15, which Bernie himself rejects. When I mentioned $11–which would have the

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    9. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      strategic leveraging effect of splitting liberal centrists from social Dems—he *still can’t do it* because he’s a classical liberal who hates the New Deal. Ok—but just concede what dumb politics that is. I think about leverage all the time and I can say Ds prefer total opposition

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    10. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      to **any** minimum wage increase at all.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher @LPDonovan

      I think you have to start with the recognition - which is really beyond dispute - that a *national* minimum wage is an awful idea in policy terms. Of course, you can make deals to turn awful policy into law, but you need to get something in return.

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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
          Replying to @baseballcrank @billscher @LPDonovan

          But there are many qualification there—nobody wants to do it in the way you imagine it would happen—no liberal economists/policy experts. *Even Bernie doesn’t.* But if nationalism, per se, is the immovable obstacle—yeah, then you’re left with nothing. If you can get around that,

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
          Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and

          McConnell runs to Joe Manchin’s office (somebody who *does* think a national minimum wage is fine, just a much smaller one than most Dems) and says, “Joe, you love bipartsanship—well, we the R senate caucus want to support your $11 min wage proposal. Splits Ds, R’s look like

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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
          Replying to @baseballcrank @billscher @LPDonovan

          Just realizing reading this again what a strange phrase it is that it is “beyond dispute” what a bad idea a national minimum wage is. Do you realize that people with much deeper understanding of the literature than you have conpletely dispute that? That just your New Deal hate,

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
          Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and

          tgat has nothing to do with anything but your dogma. Fine—we all have our priors. But this isn’t about job loss abd the rest—it’s that people want higher wages, this one way they can get them that public policy can provide—and that destroys your theories of the economy.

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