Source: Slow Boring
by Matthew Yglesias
“I know many people find discourse about ‘the groups’ — a conversation that I’m probably largely responsible for elevating — to be annoyingly vague and non-specific. But I worry that digging in too much on individual cases will create a misleading impression that some specific group is unusually influential or pernicious, when the relevant dynamic is quite general. The non-specific phrase ‘the groups’ is itself something that I picked up from talking to people who work on Capitol Hill. They often invoke the concept to explain Democratic Party decision-making, and they normally do it in precisely those terms — what matters is not one group (that’s easy to blow off) but a collective of groups who form a pseudo-consensus. Still, specifics can be illustrative.” (10/06/25)
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups-have-learned-nothing