Great speeches need good ideas
Great speeches need good ideasPlus LeBron James, the pundit’s fallacy, and alternate Robert E. Past performance is no guarantee of future political success, but it’s a decent indicator. And I’m happy progressives found someone like that to be happy with.
- ▪Great speeches need good ideasPlus LeBron James, the pundit’s fallacy, and alternate Robert E.
- ▪Past performance is no guarantee of future political success, but it’s a decent indicator.
- ▪And I’m happy progressives found someone like that to be happy with.
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Great speeches need good ideasPlus LeBron James, the pundit’s fallacy, and alternate Robert E. LeeMatthew YglesiasJul 24, 2026∙ PaidShareBarack Obama delivers his 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Staff via Getty Images)I wrote about Troy Jackson for the New York Times.He is not totally my cup of tea as a politician and he has some weak spots, but he was a consistent electoral overperformer in his State Senate district, and while that diminished somewhat as he became an orthodox progressive on abortion and L.G.B.T. issues, he still ran very strong in 2022. Past performance is no guarantee of future political success, but it’s a decent indicator. And I’m happy progressives found someone like that to be happy with.
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