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Ezra Klein

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Columnist, @NYTOpinion Author, "Why We're Polarized" Host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast

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1Sep 10, '25In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi a21.9×9.3M79k16k11k
2Sep 30, '20It's not just that Trump is a bad president. It's that he's a bad person.12.3×0176k26k236
3Jul 21, '24An actual hero. This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.9.4×4M41k4.5k752
4Dec 2, '24It's terrible politics and precedent but I'm going to be honest and say that the Trump team has been brutally clear they want revenge on their enemies, they are obsessed with Hunte6.2×2.6M32k2.6k1k
5Feb 20, '20"I worked very hard for it" is the worst possible justification for being a billionaire. You know who works very hard? Single mothers working two minimum wage jobs with just-in-tim5.5×076k12k274
6Mar 27, '25The administration's response to the Signal debacle is just suffused with contempt for their own voters. Just an endless belief that the people who support them can be tricked into4.0×1.7M24k3.5k696
7Jul 31, '19Elizabeth Warren is simply the best policy communicator in politics now.3.9×057k6.8k93
8Apr 29, '20Donald Trump does not want to be in charge of any of this. He wants to play president on TV. He doesn't want responsibility for governance in a time of crisis, and in every way he 3.9×049k10k225
9Jun 29, '20This is a governance failure, not an inevitability of the disease.3.8×046k12k377
10Nov 5, '20It isn't an accident that Georgia might flip. And it's not just demographic change. It's also Georgia's most prominent Democrat being absolutely committed to democracy itself as he3.5×049k6.8k513
11Jan 3, '20The question isn’t whether Solemaini was a bad guy. The questions are: 1. What are the likely consequences of his assassination? 2. Do you trust the Trump administration to have pl3.3×041k9.1k184
12Sep 20, '19That Trump felt emboldened enough to try to personally collude with a foreign government to shape the 2020 election *after* the Russia investigation is pretty good evidence that he3.2×039k9k118
13Nov 10, '20The problem here isn't Donald Trump. If he were ranting alone, none of this would matter. The problem is the Republican Party that is indulging him, and trying to electorally profi3.2×043k7k151
14Mar 24, '20It is a horrifying absence of political imagination to prefer letting millions die to, say, trying an appropriately sized basic income and mobilizing the economy to surge health re3.0×036k9.8k248
15Jan 13, '21Voting "no" on impeachment because insurrectionists are threatening you is the very definition of letting the terrorists win3.0×040k8.3k155
16Oct 9, '19I'd like to hear some Republican senators articulate, as a benchmark, what presidential conduct they would consider impeachable.3.0×041k5.8k59
17Nov 13, '24Demanding Senate Republicans back Gaetz as attorney general and Hegseth as Defense Secretary is the 2024 version of forcing Sean Spicer to say it was the largest inauguration crowd2.9×1.2M17k3.3k689
18Apr 17, '20One of the weirdest and worst asymmetries in policy right now is that banks and big corporations can get fast, basically unlimited help from the Fed, while small biz and individual2.8×034k7.3k253
19Jan 20, '21If the person who got the most votes became president, Trump would never have become president. Most Americans didn't want this. They saw that this was a bad idea, and they were ov2.8×041k5.4k198
20Oct 8, '20Susan Page should insist Pence actually answers her questions.2.8×041k4.4k24
21Nov 20, '19I’m a broken record on this, but the impeachment process isn’t revealing what Trump did. We already knew that. It’s revealing what the Republican Party will accept, and even defend2.7×035k7.5k117
22Mar 9, '20A lot of Americans thought they were electing the tough-minded, realist executive from The Apprentice when in fact they were electing a marketer and celebrity whose deepest talent 2.7×035k6.5k161
23Jan 29, '20So last night I was on @allinwithchris and I realized I don't know how to communicate how constitutionally dangerous the Senate situation is right now. We're not arguing over what 2.7×031k8.2k322
24Jun 9, '20If that's the theory he comes up with when a 75-year-old protester is shoved to the ground imagine what he'll say _ and what he'll try and get his supporters to do — if he loses th2.7×039k5.4k161
25Feb 20, '20Elizabeth Warren unleashed is a remarkable thing to watch.2.6×040k4.3k58
26Nov 20, '19Criminals are going to be very excited about this new legal principle that if you verbally deny the crime you are committing while you are committing it, you are innocent.2.6×036k6.4k115
27Mar 16, '20I miss Elizabeth Warren2.6×040k3.2k44
28Jun 17, '20Every insider account of Trump says basically the same thing. There are always a few new details, but the takeaway is always, always, that he is exactly who he appears to be in pub2.6×036k6k198
29Nov 27, '19Stopping climate change is only expensive compared to an imaginary world where climate change doesn't exist. It's *incredibly cheap* compared to the actual cost of a 3 degree warme2.6×031k8.5k175
30Nov 20, '20Trump said he would do this if he lost in 2016. He said he would do this if he lost in 2020. There is nothing here that wasn't predictable, and predicted. The only thing we didn't 2.6×038k4.7k208
31Mar 13, '20"I don't take responsibility at all" is such a huge in-kind donation to the Joe Biden campaign that I wonder if Trump broke campaign finance laws in making it2.6×036k5.7k108
32Jan 16, '20This Parnas interview is incredibly damning. But, then, it’s *all* been incredibly damning. The problem here is not a lack of damning testimony, some of it from President Trump him2.5×032k7k74
33Nov 9, '20If we saw the head of the ruling regime, and his party, react to the election results this way in any other country, we'd know exactly what we are looking at. And I'd say here, too2.4×026k7.4k633
34Jan 7, '21I'm happy to see people do the right thing, even when they're late. But the Republicans changing their vote on EC certification never thought the election was stolen. They thought 2.4×033k5.7k193
35Jun 18, '20According to Donald Trump's Twitter feed today, the people he hires are fools and traitors and his party's Supreme Court appointees — and possibly his own, depending on which decis2.3×030k6.5k155
36Jun 11, '20Donald Trump is now down by more than 8 points in polling averages. Coronavirus is resurgent. Expanded UI is set to expire on July 31st. The nation has exploded in protests over po2.3×031k5.5k149
37Nov 6, '20We're about to get a very vivid lesson in why having a long lame-duck period in politics, where a defeated president still wields full presidential power, is dangerous.2.1×030k3.8k131
38May 30, '20It's not just that the police officer did this without provocation. It's that he did it, on camera, safe in the belief he would get away with it. It tells you everything you need t2.1×024k7.3k227
39Apr 24, '20The president isn't a comedian working out new material on the road. He knows that, we know that. He can apologize for speaking recklessly, or he can regret it quietly, but the med2.1×029k5.1k81
40Apr 19, '19It's a sign of the rot in our political system that all conversation about holding the president accountable takes the form of discussing "What Democrats should do," because Republ2.0×023k6.7k62
41Mar 4, '21Biden buried two children, and a spouse, who died because of disasters he couldn't stop. So if he gets a little sharp when politicians undermine something as simple as wearing a ma2.0×026k4.6k132
42Mar 5, '20So the 2020 election is going to come down to: - A 73-year-old conspiracy theorist who rambles incoherently and lies constantly vs. - A 77-year-old who rambles and sometimes loses 2.0×022k3.5k258
43Oct 8, '20For Page not to demand Pence actually answer her question on the peaceful transfer of power is a terrible failure of moderating. It was a good question, and it needs to be answered1.9×027k4.3k53
44Jan 6, '21The key question now is whether congressional Democrats facing purple or red electorates learned the lesson of 2010: You win reelection by delivering real benefits to people fast, 1.9×027k4k214
45Mar 19, '21Watching Fox News openly root for Putin is a really remarkable moment in what the American Right has become, captured for posterity.1.9×022k5.3k477
46Oct 23, '20Imagine if Trump cared about coronavirus as much as he cares about Joe Biden's son.1.9×026k4.2k52
47Nov 18, '19The question at the heart of the impeachment process isn't "Did Trump do it?" We know he did it. It's not in dispute. The question at the heart of the impeachment process is "What 1.8×023k4.5k74
48Feb 20, '20This is your regular reminder that primaries should be decided using ranked-choice voting.1.8×026k3.3k47
49Feb 5, '20It is hard to do the right thing - and even to keep sight of what the right thing is — when your system, group, and career incentives push you towards doing the wrong thing. Mitt R1.7×024k3.5k49
50Nov 5, '20I think the important part of this video isn't the flagrantly illiberal theory the Trump administration is selling, but the fact that the Fox News anchors aren't buying.1.6×023k3k544
51Mar 16, '20The crazy thing about this debate is for all the flubs, both of them are crisper, more coherent, and more on-topic than Trump was at a planned presser where he had notes earlier to1.6×023k3.2k45
52Oct 2, '20People keep calling this an "October surprise" but nothing could possibly be less surprising than the president who keeps mocking mask-wearing and holding rallies catching COVID.1.6×024k2.8k38
53Sep 20, '21This is just my occasional reminder that you can eliminate the filibuster with 51 votes. The parliamentarian is not the obstacle. The obstacle is Senate Democrats who support the f1.6×021k3.8k107
54Mar 10, '20The intersection of a complex, unexpected health crisis causing an unusual form of recession is exactly the kind of thing Elizabeth Warren would've been unusually good at handling.1.5×021k2.9k88
55Nov 13, '20The most alarming aspect of the past week is not Trump. He is doing exactly what he has always done. It’s the way Republican elites have consolidated around him. Without them, Trum1.5×020k3k271
56Jul 31, '19Pete Buttigieg's answer on structural reform is far and away the most important answer of the night. If you want to get *any* of this stuff done, you have to start with structural 1.5×020k3.5k74
57Jan 24, '20Bernie’s strength is that he can win over some voters who are skeptical of Democrats - like Joe Rogan. If you think getting Trump out of office is actually important, that’s a good1.4×020k1.8k108
58Nov 7, '19This is the chair of the Arizona GOP. One of the most dangerous trends in American politics right now is Republicans coming to explicitly see democracy as dangerous to their rule, 1.4×017k4.8k114
59Mar 9, '20The pivot Trump is about to make from downplaying the coronavirus to using it to justify xenophobia and scapegoating is going to be very grim.1.4×020k3.3k97
60Apr 21, '20It is INSANE that a national testing program is being framed as a concession to congressional Democrats. It is even more insane that it might be true: yes, Trump should WANT testin1.4×017k4.2k113
61Sep 30, '20I'm old enough to remember when the President of the United States was asked to condemn white supremacists and didn't. it was like 20 minutes ago.1.4×019k3.4k48
62Jan 4, '21It’s always been lunacy to have a lame duck period this long and we’re really seeing why this year.1.4×022k1.7k47
63Oct 9, '19The Constitution has an answer for a president who refuses to cooperate with congressional oversight: impeach, convict, remove. The constitutional crisis isn’t Donald Trump. It’s M1.4×017k3.8k35
64Nov 3, '20Donald Trump deserves to lose this election, and to lose it by more than he will. He has governed cruelly, and he has governed poorly. Our disagreements are real, but there should 1.4×019k2.9k155
65Mar 6, '20In 2015, Bill Gates told me a deadly flu-like pandemic spreading under globalized conditions was the most predictable disaster in the history of the human race, and so there was no1.4×014k4.8k547
66Nov 20, '20After nearly eight amazing years building, editing, and working at @voxdotcom, I am leaving to join @nytopinion, writing a reported column on policy and the policymaking process, a1.3×021k827151
67Sep 25, '19The devolution of Lindsey Graham into Trump's most slavish, reflexive apologist is one of the more unnerving political stories of our time.1.3×019k2.1k38
68Dec 17, '19I don't think it's Trump's abuses of power that will shock future generations. It's his obvious unfitness for office, displayed in letters like this one, and the way the Republican1.3×015k3.7k165
69May 28, '20Donald Trump loves free speech and free enterprise so much that he'd use the powers of the presidency to shut down Twitter because it chose, as a private enterprise, to surround hi1.3×018k3.1k71
70Sep 30, '20Trump is forcing an unwatchable debate, in which he plays the heel so Biden can't get in a full answer, in an election where he's down 10 points. It's an insane strategy.1.3×018k2.3k46
71Aug 27, '20You get the sense the Trump campaign really, really expected to run against Bernie Sanders, and when Joe Biden won, they just kept the old plan.1.3×018k1.9k89
73Oct 25, '19Bill Barr is the most mysterious character in the whole Trump drama. He watched Trump’s fury build towards Sessions and decided to become the loyalist AG even Sessions refused to b1.3×015k2.1k41
74Sep 30, '20Trump's strategy here, as everywhere, is to lie confidently, lie loudly, lie often.1.3×017k3k51
75Apr 1, '19"Why is 'Merrick Garland' trending on Twitter?" Oh.1.2×016k3.3k30
76May 7, '20The deal the Republican Party has made with Donald Trump is they will let him disastrously mismanage a national crisis and corruptly protect his friends from legal consequences so 1.2×016k3.3k76
77May 6, '20We could phase out of lockdown safely if the federal government had done the work on testing and tracing. We could phase out of lockdown safely if the federal government had done t1.2×014k3.9k73
78Nov 11, '20America's only been a stable, real democracy since the 1960s, with the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. The roots are shallow. The idea that its survival is assu1.2×016k2.5k363
79Mar 11, '20Following the Clinton-Sanders race with the Biden-Sanders race is almost like a natural experiment in — to put it gently — the role gender plays in voter preferences and judgments 1.2×016k2.4k118
80Feb 11, '21In much of SF, you can’t walk 20 feet without seeing a sign declaring that Black lives matter and no human being is illegal. Those signs sit in yards zoned for single families, in 1.2×015k2.3k440
81Feb 20, '20Just dropping this here, no particular reason.1.2×014k3.6k335
82Nov 5, '20I hesitate to draw attention to this stuff, but... Mark Levin is one of the most popular radio hosts in the country. This isn't just about Trump. It's exposure to guys like Levin, 1.2×014k2.1k148
83Sep 30, '20This isn't just Trump's disrespect for Biden coming through. It's his disrespect for the election process entirely. This constant litany of interruptions and lies deprives voters o1.2×014k3.7k34
84Jun 12, '19“This business that Democrats play by one set of rules and Republicans play by a different set of rules, those days are over when I’m president,” @ewarren told me. This is Warren’s1.1×013k3.3k249
85Aug 25, '20This isn’t a political party. It’s a personality cult.1.1×016k2.1k51
86Jul 31, '19Three candidates on that stage could've been hailed as heroes for helping Democrats win back the Senate, and then they could have had huge influence on the future of the country, r1.1×015k2.5k20
87Nov 1, '19Wait, Kevin McCarthy actually said, as an argument against impeachment, that it’s “not only an attempt to undo the last election, it's an attempt to influence the next one as well.1.1×016k2.2k28
88Jun 30, '20If we were in Mitt Romney's second term, would there be a culture war over wearing masks? I doubt it. Polarization is powerful. But the decisions of individual leaders matters too.1.1×016k1.7k61
89Aug 1, '19The Warren-Sanders team-up on Biden is going to be absolutely brutal.1.1×017k1.4k35
90Apr 6, '20Taking to @ewarren right now is a strange, slightly melancholy experience: like glimpsing an alternate reality where political leadership is proportionate to the crisis we're facin1.1×014k2.6k197
91Mar 9, '20Many of us have always feared how Trump would behave amidst a crisis that needed steady, sacrificial presidential leadership and factual communication. Now we’re in that crisis, an1.1×014k2.7k48
92Mar 15, '20These press conferences have the strangest structure: Trump opens with something totally bizarre. Then Pence and a sequence of experts quietly move on and have a totally different 1.1×014k2.4k60
93Sep 30, '20Every few moments, when Trump gets bored and stops interrupting for a second, Biden opens a wormhole to a parallel world where a normal presidential debate is taking place, with tw1.0×016k2k56
94Nov 5, '19Donald Trump is brazen and crude. His abuses are blatant. His henchmen are largely clowns. His underlings are turning on him. He is the easiest possible test case for can our syste1.0×013k2.8k171
95Sep 26, '19I'd say implying a whistleblower deserves execution strengthens the case for impeachment considerably.1.0×014k2.4k35
96Mar 16, '20I am very glad to see Trump's tone changing so sharply. I'd really like to know what information he got, or who it is he knows who got sick, that changed it.1.0×014k1.2k52
97Apr 23, '19That monopolies answer by Warren in her CNN townhall was killer. A master class is how to clearly explain a complex policy that’s without collapsing into jargon. The idea that Warr1.0×013k2.3k82
98Jan 8, '21The relative sobriety of that suggests the only thing Trump has ever truly feared is permanently losing access to twitter and facebook1.0×015k1.3k77
99Nov 4, '20Just to be clear: The Trump administration is asking the courts to stop counting in PA and MI, Trump has declared victory and called any deviation in the coming days theft, etc. It1.0×013k2.1k46
100Jan 7, '21The right way for this to end is in the invocation of the 25th amendment. There isn't time or process for impeachment. But Trump is unfit to serve further, and those around him kno0.9×013k1.5k33

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