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Jonathan Chait

@jonathanbchait.bsky.social
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Staff writer for the Atlantic. Messages with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
taking even a moment to google anything I've written about Rufo previously would have easily dispelled the notion I admire his career before now
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I appreciate the candor of critics who concede their principle is "don't punch left." Dispenses with the need to pretend they object to the substance of any individual act of left-criticism.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I've written hundreds and hundreds of columns, dating back to March 2016, calling Trump a dangerous authoritarian. I don't know how to describe @ryanlcooper.com except as a straight liar.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Sorry, but if you think trump's unpopularity refutes median voter theory, you don't understand the idea you're trying to attack stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Important, overlooked point, via @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev www.noahpinion.blog/p/maga-doesn...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I've read some wild threads on social media, but this one gets from the start (left) to an absolutely amazing conclusion (right)
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Why is Trump spending his time micromanaging the Kennedy Center's programming? Many people are asking. Including Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Trump lawyer deciding Judge Boasberg's order doesn't apply in international waters
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Can somebody show me the column I wrote arguing "greatest threat to free speech in America was angry college students"?
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The Trump administration's policy is unapologetic right-wing cancel culture backed by state power www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Why would Elon Musk call Mark Kelly a traitor for supporting Ukraine? Because he sees where Trump is taking us. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
well, they did try to design an experiment, and it found exposure to this add moved viewers (and everybody saw this add) by more than the margin of victory: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/u...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
agree the economy mattered more, but Harris's extremely unpopular 2019 social issues stances also hurt! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/u...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The theory that Trump wants Putin to win is a straightforward read of his words and actions. It's the alternate interpretation that has gotten increasingly convoluted. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelensky didn't provoke Trump to take Russia's side. He was planning this all along. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I have a piece about how Trump has transformed the mental model of the business elite, who now see proximity to power as the essential ingredient in economic success www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The reason Democrats who want government to be more efficient hate DOGE is that DOGE is making government less efficient and saving basically no money www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Great minds tweet alike
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The level of hothouse thinking in some left-wing circles is such that this employed professor seems to believe I literally never criticize the right! adriandaub.substack.com/p/that-is-no...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Saw this ad online. I guess Republicans agree that gender is a social construct?
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I don't have a lot of confidence in Elon's process, let me put it that way theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Now this is some effective political activism
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Possibly not the first time Hegseth has victimized somebody and told them they brought it on themselves
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Tim Noah has a column inaccurately claiming that I believe “it’s past time Democrats cut the working class loose.” In fact, I don’t believe that and have never written that. yahoo.com/news/democra...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Crypto industry yelling at the Trump family right now
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My God. The only Trump nominee at risk of defeat is Gabbard, and the reason is... she supported a two-state solution? www.thebulwark.com/p/tulsi-gabb...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Do we know Trump "believes" this? Or does he merely allege it? The NYT is normally reluctant to call a Trump misstatement a "lie" on the correct grounds it can't read his mind. But here the paper assumes his self-interested claims are genuinely felt: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"Who should we assign this story to?" "Feels like a natural fit for Beeferman"
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Would it have been possible to actually deploy large amounts of green energy in 2009? My sense is that the technologies were so costly and embryonic that they needed research and development.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"Greedflation"? 0%. I think the contribution of fiscal policy vs exogenous factors is pretty unsettled. Dylan Matthews suggests fiscal policy contributed up to half, but that is a high-end estimate. www.vox.com/politics/394...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
In fact, I said the opposite:
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Why did Trump win in 2024? My piece is also clear on the reason for that: inflation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I don't think you need complicated theories about status anxiety to understand why Trump won. My piece is, in fact, pretty clear on this.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
"Trumpism" is a difficult thing to identify, but I do advance a theory about the causes of his 2016 victory:
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Biden fully bought into the post-neoliberal model of American politics. It didn't work. At all. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I had to find out who would be angry with this obviously correct take on PSU's ill-fated decision. The answer is: fan of Penn State and "Delaware leftist politics," so that tracks
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Biden would have wanted it this way
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is the way.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Democrats can break with the most unreasonable demands of the activist left without abandoning trans rights www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Democrats can accommodate public opinion without surrendering important principles on trans rights www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It's never good when the chart of your sex payments is too intricate to be legible
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